Down in New Orleans where the blues was born / it takes a cool cat to blow a horn
On LaSalle and Rampart Street / the combos play with a mambo beat
Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras mambo… Down in New Orleans
—“Mardi Gras Mambo” by Adams, Welsch, Elliott

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