Mary Gauthier Catie Curtis
Mama said she don't give a d**n what those people say
Cane smoke can't be good for you day after day
Every year at harvest time when the black smoke filled the sky
Shed pick me up and take me home and make me stay inside
From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air
Dirty laundry
Dirty money
Dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane
Christmas on the bayou
Midnight come and gone
Driving past the sugar mill and all the lights are on
The parking lot is full of trucks I can see the furnace glow
Everybody's working overtime
It's a good job
Even though
From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air
Dirty laundry
Dirty money
Dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane
First came the sugar cane
Then came Thibodaux
Cane sugar built this town
Cane sugar paved these roads
They burn the leaves to harvest cash
Money for the company
Money makes the world go round
Money
Money
Money
From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields
All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville
Dirty air
Dirty laundry
Dirty money
Dirty rain
A dirty dark at daybreak burning
Burning
The soot and ash are falling like a dark and deadly snow
The air is full of poison to the Gulf of Mexico
Dirty air
Dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain
