Another Kind of South

from Voodoo Soul by Dr. Marigaux

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lyrics

it’s another kind, another kind
It’s another kind of south
Well as soon as you hear the word south I can tell what you are thinking
You’re thinking about how the Mississippi river
rolls down between Arkansas and Mississippi
past Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf
past Angola, past parchment farm
past Bayous and antebellum mansions
all the way down till it reach the gulf of mexico at New Orleans
land of Louis Armstrong and Professor Long hair
Dr. John and Jelly Roll Morton (There’s a man who had some stories)
A land of Gumbo and fine food and lynchings and racial intolerance and some of the best tunes you ever heard.

But that’s not what I’m talking about, I’m talking about a different place. A place that ain’t so hot.
talking about a other kind of south.

but I think you all are too norther hemisphere-centric - you only thinking of one hemisphere, but there’s another.
Head on south cross that ocean. Cross the international date line
you see down here we are so far ahead of you Americans we are always in tomorrow
Head down through the tropics, down to New Zealand
Head down state highway one, all the way down
down till you reach the last decent city before Antartica
it’s called Dunedin

it’s another kind, another kind
It’s another kind of south

Well down here in Dunedin, we re happy.
happy, happy , happy
we’re so happy, we even got a longitudinal study that sows us how happy we are, and how happy we have been.
We got Cheese rolls, we got Emerson’s beer. We got more bagpipes than all of Scotland
happy, happy, happy.
it’s another kind, another kind
It’s another kind of south

Well, we got libraries, art galleries and museums, and we got a zoo.
well, we could have had a zoo except the animals would all freeze to death in winter, and that wouldn’t be much fun for anybody.
Even in Summer you can sunbathe for about thirty minutes on one day in late January
unless you wear a wet suit. Many people choose to wear wet suits when they sunbathe down here. helps to prevent the skin cancer.
and let me tell you, there ain’t no pleasure greater than watching some namby-pamby northerner shivering and moaning about the cold on a warm Dunedin summers day
it’s another kind, another kind
It’s another kind of south