Homo HooDoo
BIG EASY HOMO HOODOO
The Big Easy be my home—
Homo Hoodoo Voodoo, baby
Vieux Carré loas languish—
In this rotting City of Love
Homo HooDoo’s been around—
Longer than Hollywood Babylon
Harlem’s Hoodoo Voodoo once—
There at The Niggeratti Mansion
Where gay poet Bruce Nugent—
Wrote “Smoke, Lily and Jade”
But Harlem with its Renaissance—
Ended during the Great Depression
While Homo Hoodoo Voodoo—
Stayed Underground in New Orleans
Like some old Egyptian temple—
Down by the sluggish Nile Delta
MUMBO JUMBO MARDI GRAS
Homo HooDoo down by the levee—
Mississippi Delta Bourbon Negritude
Mardi Gras’s got Mandingo men—
Parading up & down Canal Street
HooDoo VooDoo Mardi Gras—
Long & lanky be what I likes
Homo HooDoo VooDoo gets around—
Marie Laveau she be back in town
Tongues be getting untied again—
Mumbo Jumbo Mardi Gras queens
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