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Mes Dames Sarat Lyrics
Candy came back in the ring last night
Stood at my bed, pulled down my sight
Black-hat magician with black cat's eyes
She had swim with me as I swim through the night
She said, "Co-Cola voodoo (?), living mambo, lowah lowah vous"
"Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo"
Up in the park they dance in the dark
To have a dance with Mes Dames Sarat
Police don't know and the moon don't show
How they rocked the sailors all night... all night, all
night, all night, all night, night, night, night
Candy called down the cul-de-sac
And men once dead, come a-rollin' back
To Mes Dames Sarat, and they kissed the hand
Of the sweet, sweet losers on the holy plans
They said, "Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah vous"
"Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, ... tonton macoute"
Contact goodnight, she was gone, goodbye
Gone uptown where I can't track her down
I left the board to sleep and wonder
to pick the radio for morning news over
Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah ooh
Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah ooh
Stood at my bed, pulled down my sight
Black-hat magician with black cat's eyes
She had swim with me as I swim through the night
She said, "Co-Cola voodoo (?), living mambo, lowah lowah vous"
"Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo"
To have a dance with Mes Dames Sarat
Police don't know and the moon don't show
How they rocked the sailors all night... all night, all
night, all night, all night, night, night, night
And men once dead, come a-rollin' back
To Mes Dames Sarat, and they kissed the hand
Of the sweet, sweet losers on the holy plans
They said, "Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah vous"
"Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, ... tonton macoute"
Gone uptown where I can't track her down
I left the board to sleep and wonder
to pick the radio for morning news over
Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah ooh
Co-Cola voodoo, living mambo, lowah lowah ooh
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4th line might start "She absconded me". Some other words are just my phonetic guesses. Somebody who speaks Haitian Creole or possibly French might be able to help here.
Seems to be about being abducted in the night and possibly coming back as zombies. Sweet dreams!
About the title. Sarat translates from Romanian to English as Salty. First, Romanian? Vlad Dracula, aka the Impaler, who dined among his dying victims and allegedly dipped his bread in their blood, rumored to be the model for Count Dracula, was of course from Romania. Second, salt had been revered in Medieval times as a purification material. Thirdly, Porphyria, aka vampire disease, is an inherited blood disease with no known cure. Skin of Porphyria sufferers when exposed to prolong sunlight can develop lesions, and some symptoms of Porphyria can be temporarily relieved by ingesting blood. Important to the song, and according to WebMD "The symptoms of acute porphyria can form quickly and last for days or weeks. A salt imbalance sometimes accompanies an episode of this type of porphyria." Now none of this is intended to cast aspersions on the victims of porphyria which must be a dreadful disease and I wish them all the understanding we can muster. The references are made to simply place some understanding about the legends which may espouse juvenile and wrongheaded notions about the several scientific oddities combined in history.
The lyrics lead me to believe The Ladies Sarat are some form of succubus which may or may not be being tracked by a demon hunter in the last stanza.