Gravelly voiced musician Coco Robicheaux was bellied up at the Yellow
Moon about a month ago, a dingy joint in the eccentric fringes of the
city, ruminating on the havoc the BP oil spill has wrought along the
Gulf Coast. He slips into rhyme from time to time, and soon his
monologue transformed into lyrics. A few other barflies ran home to
grab instruments -- a banjo and a couple of harmonicas -- and "The New
Battle of New Orleans," the name they gave this ditty, was born:
We blew that rig and that oil kept a-comin'
Twice as many barrels as there was a while ago
Thar they blow till the oil it was a-running
Up the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico