Sugar Cane - Catie Curtis

I 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 black smoke fills the sky

Get the kids and bring 'em home and make 'em stay inside

From Thibodaux to Raceland

There’s a fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from LaFourche to Ibercville

Dirty air dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain

Dirty dark in the morning when they’re burning the sugar cane

Christmas on the bayou

Midnight come and gone

Driving by the sugar mills

All the lights are on

Parking lot full of trucks

Inside the furnace glows

Everybody’s working overtime

It’s a good job even though

From Thibodaux to Raceland, there’s a fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from LaFourche to Ibercville

Dirty air dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain

Dirty dark in the morning when they’re burning the sugar cane

First came the sugar cane then came Thibodaux

King sugar built this town, cane paved these roads

Burn the leaves, harvest fast

That’s more for the company

Nobody even thinks to ask

Nobody even thinks to scream

From Thibodaux to Raceland, there’s a fire in the fields

All the way up the bayou from LaFourche to Ibercville

Dirty air dirty laundry dirty money dirty rain

Dirty dark in the morning when they’re burning the sugar cane

Ashes are falling like a dark and deadly snow

All the way up the bayou and to the gulf of Mexico

Dirty air, dirty laundry, dirty money, dirty rain

A dirty deal with the devil and they’re burning

Burning, burning the sugar cane