Ride this train to Bogaloosa Louisiana see these swamps and forest 

Man's never set foot in a lot of it 

You'll find aligator mink coon possum squirrel otter and the lakes're full of fish 

You'll find places so virgin and fresh 

That you'd think the Lord just created it yesterday 

As a matter of fact some people say when this world was made 

A whole lot of it just must have looked like southern Louisiana does now 

In 1788 I left Halifax Nova Scotia with about two hundred other Acadians 

We made a long tiring journey south 

In our party of two hundred there was this beautiful girl 

That I just haven't quite been able to forget 

Dorraine was her name and Dorraine and I were 

Well we were kinda pledged to each other 

And then we said when we got to the promised land 

We'd build us a house and someday we'd have 

The biggest sugar-cane plantation in the country 

And I used to make Dorraine blush 

When I'd tell her we'd raise the biggest family in the country too