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Chemical Voodoo

from Where This River Runs by Andrew McKnight

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The night sky along the stretch of Mississippi Delta
between Baton Rouge and New Orleans glows an eerie
orange from the factory lights in the dense concentration
of chemical manufacturing plants known as "Cancer
Alley". An active imagination can invent some interesting
notions about those blackwater swamps.

lyrics

Words & music A. McKnight, ©1998 Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
The moon sweats with fever, wet with clouds blood red
in a dark patch of bayou swamp, where angels fear to tread
pipes long forgotten, from beneath refineries
and chemical voodoo, hangs like heat from hell
the swamp keeps dark secrets, cause no one’s returned to tell, of chemical voodoo

Verse 2
the legends come in whispers, his name they will not speak,
one night his pirogue vanished, in a thick tangle of cypress trees
that he met his Maker, that much is certainty
cause’ chemical voodoo, hangs like heat from hell
the swamp keeps dark secrets, cause no one’s returned to tell, of chemical voodoo

Verse 3
the halo of the factory lights, cannot penetrate the trees,
the air dank with evil, the wind blows like disease
under eyes of industrial skies, so far from St. Evangeline
it’s chemical voodoo, hangs like heat from hell
the swamp keeps dark secrets, cause no one’s returned to tell,
it’s chemical voodoo

credits

from Where This River Runs, released August 1, 1998
AM - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars
John Rickard - harmonica
Ralph Gordon - upright bass
Lisa Taylor - percussion

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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