I'm going back down in New Orleans
I'm going back down in New Orleans
Well, I'm going where I can get my rice and beans1
We are the cooking'est Creoles2 in the world you ever seen
We are the cooking'est Creoles in the world you ever seen
And if you don't believe me, follow me back down to New Orleans
Well, my man is a doctor and he lives off of rice and beans
Well, my man is a doctor and he lives off of rice and beans
That's why he done gone and left me back down in New Orleans
I've got the cooking'est sister in the world you ever seen
I've got the cooking'est sister in the world you ever seen
But she can't cook nothing but them rice and beans
And you can't tell me nothing, baby, that I never seen
And you can't tell me nothing, baby, that I never seen
And if you don't believe me, follow me back to New Orleans
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Note 1: rice and beans, though usually "red beans and rice" is used by countless others as an evocation of "back downhome";
Note 2: Creoles, French créole, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo, white person born in the colonies. A person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America OR a white person descended from early French or Spanish settlers of the U.S. Gulf states and preserving their speech and culture OR a person of mixed French or Spanish and black descent speaking a dialect of French or Spanish.
