Oh, come and get your revel on:
laissez bon temps roulez!
Catch this moment before it’s gone,
’til sorrow’s back to dwell upon.
Parade and dance across the lawn!
There’s no time like today!
Imagine yourself some great chief:
laissez bon temps roulez!
Buy drinks all ’round, and find relief
in an illusion, sweet and brief,
that none are high and none beneath;
there’s no time like today!
Life is a party through midnight:
laissez bon temps roulez!
Forget the daily fuss and fight,
the might that makes injustice right,
sweep that foul dust up out of sight.
There’s no time like today!
Come on, then, raise your cup and cheer:
laissez bon temps roulez!
The time is only now and here,
slowed with the help of wine and beer.
Tomorrow we may disappear;
there’s no time like today!
Come revelers, and dance and sing
laissez bon temps roulez!
Who cares what sad tomorrow brings,
when we return to baser things;
let loose the fiddle and harp strings!
There’s no time like today!
Oh, come out to the Mardi Gras;
laissez bon temps roulez!
Let winter’s frost begin to thaw;
throw off your worry’s tooth and claw,
and just for now, think life a draw.
There’s no time like today!
28 FEB 2017
