New Orleans is Sinking
I just found two versions of the Tragically Hip New Orleans is Sinking that I had hidden away -- the Killer Whale Tank version, and the Scuba Cop version. If anybody has the lyrics to those versions, please post them in the comments. Let's face it, Gordie is either a genius, or really fucked up.
Found one ...
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Bourbon blues on the street, Loose and complete
And the skies are smokey blue-green
I can't forsake a dixie dead shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean
My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
Colonel Tom, what's wrong? What's goin' on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, "Hey north, you're south, Shut your big mouth
You gotta do what you feel is real."
Ain't got no picture postcards
Ain't got no souveniers
My baby she don't know me when I'm thinking 'bout those years
I had a job before this
I had a job before this
Ultimately it was that job that drove me into this
I worked at an aquarium, an aquarium with lots of money from
the government, so it was HUGE!!
I was clean and scrub man, we called each other
In the C and S union
I scrubbed the inside of the killer whale tank
And after a while, the boys in the C n' S, Clean and Scrub
we just sort of made it one word
The killer whale tank
The killer whale tank
UHH! The killer whale tank
I'm going into...the killer whale tank UHH!
I got along wth these two beasts, so well!
It was like they knew me, they looked at me
with their hundred year old eyes and it was like they knew me!
Hi!
I'd put on my scuba gear, my mask, my regulator
And I'd fall into the tank with an airy sound
Maybe a PFFHHHT, then I was underwater
Sometimes I'd jump out right in front of the window
When people were expecting to see a killer whale
And they'd see a human
And they'd get spooked!! Spooked!
Anyway, I'd do that.
But I was in the water this particular day
Unbeknownst to me,
Shamu, and Bartholomew, their relatioship had gone stale
Seems I was going in there so much,
And I was looking so good,
Shamu took a shining to me!
And they're so smart, those things, you know
They got all these human emotions
Love, lust, greed! Hundred year-old eyed jealousy!
Bartholomew was livid! Unbeknownst to me
I can't hear a goddamn thing underwater!
He came up, he was bumping against me a lot
That stale killer whale bumping up against someone
So pale, and frail
How was I to know that the killer whale relationship had gone stale?
He brushes up to me a couple times, his skin is like sandpaper
I say, hey man, what's up, what's going on, what is it?
I don't want to steal your mommy
And I sure don't want to take the place of your daddy
I only wanna be your friend
And he circled around, and I thought we were all patched up,
and I was scrubbing, and he came on me, he came and he, he came and He ripped my left arm off
I mean, the killer whale, they're beasts of the deep,
they're usually docile and friendly in captivity
But somewhere along the line thousands of years of breeding
just snapped, and he took my left arm, man he took my left arm
He took my ****ing left arm!
What is it Bartholomew?
I spoke to him in a language he could understand as he came back
EWWWWWWWHOOOEWW WEEEEE EEWW WHHOOO WOOO
Pale as a lightbulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me
I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the Lord above
And said, "Hey man thanks"
Sometimes I feel so good I gotta scream
She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to God she said...
My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
best song ever created!!!!
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