Band: Woodbox Gang
Album: Born With A Tail
Checkpoint Charlie
VERSE 1
I had a dream I was in New Orleans
Maybe it was heaven
All I know I wasn t lonesome anymore
And the saints were marching in
VERSE 2
Then I met a man chiseled from stone
Shared my table at the square
Maybe it was Jesus, maybe Iggy Pop
We smoked my last cigarette
CHORUS 1
What does it matter heaven or the latter
âI ll pay the tabâ said the Nazarene
We can take all you ve got good times or not
With Iggy and Jesus in New Orleans
VERSE 3
It was daybreak way out on the levee
Iggy is playing washtub in three-quarter time
Down by the river I heard some clawhammer banjo
Me and Jesus went fishing
CHORUS 2
What does it matter the Bayou or El Paso
âI ll pay the tabâ said the Nazarene
High as a fruit bat in Napa Valley
With Iggy and Jesus in New Orleans
VERSE 4
Was it purgatory, was it Checkpoint Charlie s
I decided I was staying forever
That ol morning sun maybe it was voodoo
I woke up to the whistling southbound train