[Verse 1]
Alligators snap at your ankles
The branches snap at your brain
If I ever get through this swamp alive
I'll nevermore pray for rain
This must be the place and still
It somehow don't seem right
Something in the moon could change
These endless days to lonely nights

[Verse 2]
I take a stroll down by the sea
And walk along the pier
Then I slip and hit my head
Now's the time to fear
I see the surface, see the rocks
See my past fly swiftly by
I feel the water in my lungs
And wake up screaming for my life

[Chorus]
In my blue heaven, there's a bottle of Pontchartrain
Chalmette by moonlight to take away the pain
Card sharks and blues harps and dolphins who leap
In my blue heaven where I can laugh and I can weep

[Verse 3]
Black shapes zip into corners
The big lads start to crawl
To holes of their own making
In the cracks within the wall
Snakes and rats and spiders
I know that they're still there
I pray to God that I may sleep
Without a hope, without a care

[Chorus]
In my blue heaven, there's a bottle of Pontchartrain
Chalmette by moonlight to take away the pain
Felines and sea lions and rain on the beach
In my blue heaven with angels who aren't out of reach

[Chorus]
In my blue heaven, there's a bottle of Pontchartrain
Chalmette by moonlight to take away the pain
Nightingales sing and the bells they will ring
In my blue heaven, the bells of hell go ding-a-ling-a-ling