- No matter how busy ya'll must be. No matter how hard ya' workin on ya' Uncle CJ's boat house that probably needed just as much work before the storm. No matter how hard ya' hopin' that the Bermuda grass stays in your once flooded front lawn and secretly hopin' the St. Augustine grass don't come back 'till 2008. No matter how crowded Metry and the West Bank and I-10 and way up north Across Da' Lake are; Christmas is still gonna' get here (same time as every year). I'm in my trailer in my driveway in my neighborhood in New Orleans. Nobody on my block is back yet except me and my two kitty cats. But I'm ready for ya'.
Here's what's new this Christmas Season. "The 12 Yats Of Christmas" is a Double CD this year. There' a Side-K, and a Side-B. (Well yes, Side-K and Side-B....what?). Side "K" is all pre-storm, side "B" is mostly new stuff, different stuff, post-storm stuff, and some other stuff I didn't have room for last year. There are twenty-seven (that's 27!) "cuts" in all. ("Cuts" is like show biz talk for recordings or songs. I try to act real sho-bizzy whenever I get the chance. And that's probably the only chance I'll get till next year.) Over the years I've lost track of how many requests we've had to put out Karaoke versions of the hits so ya'll can do sing-alongs and Christmas programs at school, so I added a few.(I know lots'a ya'll are over by Delgada's nite-school gettin' ya' GED's.), so the new song new song this year is:
"The GED Fight Song".
- OK, really, no kiddin'; everybody knows everything's not back to perfect yet. I'd be OK with everything almost back to not-so-good. There's only one thing that we got that the rest of the whole world doesn't have. And that's New Orleans just the way you wanna' remember it, and just the way it is right now. So here we are; that's all we got... Well, I guess we got po-boy sammidges... Well I guess we got da' lake... Well I guess we got Fats Domino... Well I guess we got the Canal St. Ferry... Well I guess we got City Park Stadium (it's still there, right?)... Well for right now I guess we still got lotsa' stuff.
- Did I mention Yatswear tee shirts? We still got Yatswear tee shirts: "Ain't Dere No More", The "Lakeview Floodmap", "The 12 Yats Of Christmas", and "Ain't No Place To Pee On Mardi Gras Day". You're already at the web site. All the stuff'll be here. The CD's are gonna' be in all the stores.
- We're gonna' be OK. It might not look so OK to the un-trained eye, but to those of us who live, work, eat, sleep, play, eat, breathe, sweat, reside, eat, dream, and eat, and plan to stay right here; Us,we can see it!
- May da' Yats be Witcha'.
- Benny
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