I'm way uptown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Meeting other tribes
Asking if they've
Sewed enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm going downtown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Asking other tribes if
They think they
Have enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
We start uptown
On that battlefield
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Said Mardi Gras morning
We will not kneel
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
We gone meet everybody
With a feather in their head
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Said early that morning
Going kill them all dead
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Make Jockomo feena
Make hoo' nah' neh'
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
It was early that morning
On Mardi Gras Day
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
My queen got the hatchet
And I got the gun
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Hey Mardi Gras morning
Gone have our fun
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I'm way uptown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Meeting other tribes
Asking if they've
Sewed enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm going downtown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Asking other tribes if
They think they
Have enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
It was early that
Morning on Josephine
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I had the prettiest Lil queen
That you ever seen
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Chief say mighty cooty' fiyo'
And we on our way
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I done sewed all year
For carnival day
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I done finished a week
Earlier than all of yall
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I done even had time to
Hit the Zulu Ball
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
But get a picture with me
You can really stunt
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
That's way harder to get
Than a coconut
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I'm way uptown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Meeting other tribes
Asking if they've
Sewed enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm going downtown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Asking other tribes if
They think they
Have enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
They were asking me for pictures
Trying to get me to stop
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
They said that suit look
Heavy boy, I know you hot
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
They a injun' running up
From the Golden Comanche
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
My chief was still in a meeting
Showing all them patches
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
You hear the spy boy on the beat
He'll give you the blues
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Running up the street
On Louisiana avenue
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
When I met the spy boy
I couldn't do no dance
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
Because it's me and the flag boy
Turn soon as I shake his hand
(Fat Tuesday in
New Orleans)
I'm way uptown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Meeting other tribes
Asking if they've
Sewed enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm going downtown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Asking other tribes if
They think they
Have enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm way uptown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Meeting other tribes
Asking if they've
Sewed enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough
I'm going downtown
With a brand new suit
Rhinestone gloves and Rhinestone boots
Asking other tribes if
They think they
Have enough
Whole hood telling me
Man that's tough