Truckstop Honeymoon - Mardi Gras In Kansas lyrics

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Truckstop Honeymoon - Mardi Gras In Kansas

There ain't no parade

Still I put on a boa and some plastic beads

and this little tutu I made

And I walked up and down this midwest town

All I could see were cars

With working stiffs going to work as if

They didn't know it was Mardi Gras

Mardis Gras in Kansas

Ain't like it is in New Orleans

There's no marching bands

No Dacquiri stands

No hookers and no drag queens

No tourists falling in the gutter

As they put their Margaritas away

Mardis Gras in Kansas

Is just another Tuesday

I shoulda known something was up

When I saw there was snow on the ground

The neighbours were digging out their driveways

And nobody else was around

Thought I made a mistake

And got the wrong date

Maybe this was all a dream

It's Mardi Gras, for sure

But it's Kansas and not New Orleans

Mardis Gras in Kansas

It just ain't the same

There's no Mardi Gras rows

No cups to go

Nobody playing Eliza Jane

Still I put on a rhumba

Dance a little number

But I felt like a kind of a freak

Coz Mardis Gras in Kansas

Is just another day of the week

So next year I got a good plan babe

I tell you what we gonna do

We're going to start the very first ever

Kansas Mardi Gras crew

Gonna shut down this whole town

We're gonna close off every street

And then the Kansas High School Marching Band

Are gonna learn a different beat

Mardis Gras in Kansas

Ain't like it is in New Orleans

There's no marching bands

No Dacquiri stands

No hookers and no drag queens

But its gonna change, it's gonna get strange

It will be like Kansas you have never seen

When we get Mardis Gras in Kansas

Just like they got in New Orleans

Yeah, we'll have Mardis Gras in Kansas

Just like they got in New Orleans