Dance Back from the Grave

I used to wake up every morning saying I must be getting away with something here
 Every day was like parole before the levees overflowed; I refuse to think it could all just disappear (I refuse to think)
 How long before the street car rattles down St. Charles Avenue and beads swing from two hundred year old trees
 How long before they walk down long Lake Pontratrain with the smell of just magnolia on the breeze
 Yeah I've seen people laughing all the way down to the cemeteries just to send another soul off on its way
 Yeah I've seen them dance right up to the edge of it
 But this time their gonna dance back from the grave
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back from the grave
 Well a thousand souls crossed over and they were greeted by an all-star band
 And while the saints go marching in there's still hell to pay back down in Dixie Land
 Yeah the storms are headed south again and the hour's getting pretty late
 Somebody better build that levee its already Mardi Gras at heavens gate (yeah)
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back from the grave
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Get your tambourines, slide trombones
 And dance back from the grave
 Oh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
 So don't shed a tear for them tonight as they circle and swoop and promenade
 They're just carrying their torches and marching in a heavenly parade
 No don't shed a tear but take their cue there's only one thing left to do in the name of every soul we didn't save
 From the ninth ward to the quarter to the Mississippi border dance back from the grave
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Dance back from the grave
 Dance back
 Dance back
 Get your tambourines, slide trombones
 And dance back from the grave
 Oh yeah, oh yeah
 Get your tambourines, slide trombones
 And dance back from the grave