Name: King Cake
Duration: P00H01M48S
Description: Yet another New Orleans influenced track. King Cake is a traditional coffee cake served during the Carnival season. The cakes contain one plastic baby (jesus)...if you get the baby you have to throw the next party. The song is a call to do Mardi Gras right...don't over-sleep.

King Cake

from Ahab's Revenge (Hot Tears, Cold Ocean) by Dusty Mason

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Yet another New Orleans influenced track. King Cake is a traditional coffee cake served during the Carnival season. The cakes contain one plastic baby (jesus)...if you get the baby you have to throw the next party. The song is a call to do Mardi Gras right...don't over-sleep.

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King Cake

Rex and Bacchus, Krewe Du Vieux 
Uptown, Downtown here come Zulu
 Skull and Bone Gang have gone ninja 
Make way for the Injuns
  Kid on trumpet born to play 
In a trash can street parade 
Up too late, drank too much 
What the hell was in that punch
  Alcohol breakfast, alcohol brunch 
Alcohol snack, alcohol lunch
 Flambeaux mambo down the street
 Here come the guard and the state police
  I like your costume and your style
 And your legs and your smile
 I like girls, you like girls 
Oh...you like girls  
Old hag Barbara, old hag Judy
 Fab and fruity, shake your booty
 Glitter and glue, heels and makeup
 Tuesday noon time to wake up  
You're so sweet and so tardy 
Baby in a king cake
It's a party

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from Ahab's Revenge (Hot Tears, Cold Ocean), released November 11, 2011
Written and performed by Ben Purscell (Dusty Mason)

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