I'll tell it like it happened
It was Darius and Owen and me
Just a few poor boys
Trying to get up out of misery
Took 55 to Louisiana
Stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish
Strictly chicken for me
Back out on the thunderheads
The radio was southern soul
They interrupted Clarence Carter
With a strange-a** local show
They were saying:
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be
The rain was coming down
The wind was howling outside of Slidel
it was the kind of night that makes you think
The whole world's going to hell
We got off on an exit
'Cause we could read the map so great
With a shocked on mojo
We parked to deliberate
When out of the part
There came a man
Like the lake had a tongue
He was right up on the glass
All yellow-eyed black-teeth
Banging on the windshield
Screaming like a demon
At the top of his lungs
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends
Crawfish 'til the bitter end
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be
I was driving out of there
As fast as a Camry could
But the interstate was flooded
And I had to take the road through the woods
Bad move in retrospect
The road disappeared in the rain
And I stood on the breaks when I saw the sign
Lake Pontchartrain
Darius was yelling
That he saw somebody out in the swells
He jumped out running
And Owen was going, as well
Come back
Why the hell would they leave the car
And that's when I heard it
Make no mistake
The voices were calling them
From under the lake
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
The crawfish were screaming
The waves ended high
My friends went in deeper
The water had climbed
I watched in terror
The lake opened wide
And horribly roaring
It pulled them inside
That's how it happened
Why would I lie?
There were no bodies
I've got none to hide
I'm just a boy
Lost his friends in the rain
Any more questions?
Just go and ask Lake Pontchartrain
It was Darius and Owen and me
Just a few poor boys
Trying to get up out of misery
Took 55 to Louisiana
Stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish
Strictly chicken for me
Back out on the thunderheads
The radio was southern soul
They interrupted Clarence Carter
With a strange-a** local show
They were saying:
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be
The rain was coming down
The wind was howling outside of Slidel
it was the kind of night that makes you think
The whole world's going to hell
We got off on an exit
'Cause we could read the map so great
With a shocked on mojo
We parked to deliberate
When out of the part
There came a man
Like the lake had a tongue
He was right up on the glass
All yellow-eyed black-teeth
Banging on the windshield
Screaming like a demon
At the top of his lungs
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends
Crawfish 'til the bitter end
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be
I was driving out of there
As fast as a Camry could
But the interstate was flooded
And I had to take the road through the woods
Bad move in retrospect
The road disappeared in the rain
And I stood on the breaks when I saw the sign
Lake Pontchartrain
Darius was yelling
That he saw somebody out in the swells
He jumped out running
And Owen was going, as well
Come back
Why the hell would they leave the car
And that's when I heard it
Make no mistake
The voices were calling them
From under the lake
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
The crawfish were screaming
The waves ended high
My friends went in deeper
The water had climbed
I watched in terror
The lake opened wide
And horribly roaring
It pulled them inside
That's how it happened
Why would I lie?
There were no bodies
I've got none to hide
I'm just a boy
Lost his friends in the rain
Any more questions?
Just go and ask Lake Pontchartrain