(Mary Gauthier/Catie Curtis)



Mama said she don't give a damn what those people say

Cane smoke can't be good for you day after day

Every year at harvest time when the black smoke filled the sky

She'd pick me up and take me home and make me stay inside



From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain

A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane



Christmas on the bayou, midnight's come and gone

Driving past the sugar mill, all the lights are on

The parking lot is full of trucks I can see the furnace glow

Everybody's working overtime, it's a good job, even though



From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain

A dirty dark at daybreak burning the sugar cane



First came the sugar cane, then came Thibodaux

Cane sugar built this town, cane sugar paved these roads

They burn the leaves to harvest cash, money for the company

Money makes the world go round, money, money, money



From Thibodaux to Raceland there's fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from Lafourche to Iberville

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain

A dirty dark at daybreak burning, yeah burning



The soot and ash are falling like a dark and deadly snow

The air is full of poison to the Gulf of Mexico

Dirty air, dirty laundry dirty money, dirty rain

A Dirty deal with devil, burning the sugar cane