YOU'VE GOT TO BE CRAZY TO LIVE IN THIS TOWN
As sung by Alex McMurray on "Frenchmen Street: Sounds of New Orleans" (2011)

1. A stopped clock's right twice a day, but here it isn't so.
Your clock's somewhere on the neutral ground between here and Thibodeaux.
Gravity's got no business here; ran cryin' like a kid.
He's cryin' up there in the attic where we done hid.

CHORUS: Because you got to be crazy; yeah, you got to be crazy.
You got to be crazy to hang around.
Yeah, you got to be crazy; you got to be crazy.
You got to be crazy to live in this town.

2. Just like you I prayed for rain, and then it rained all day.
It rained and rained for two weeks and two nights; make it go away.
I went to ask the man; he don't know; his brother don't know either.
In the church of the ignorants, I'm a stone believer. CHORUS.

3. I'm goin' to lay it out like the Hindus say.
I'm sayin' there's a god and she want to play.
Yeah, she's up there laughin', and I know it's true,
And down here everybody's sayin', "How'd you do? How'd you do? How'd you do? How'd you do? How'd you do?"

CHORUS: Yeah, you got to be crazy; you got to be crazy.
You got to be crazy to live in this town.

4. They say this town's been bent many times, but it never broke.
They say this place been asleep for so long, but it never woke.
Now, I used to pray to the Lord: "God help us; deliver us from ease."
Now I pray to the Lord: "Where are you? Won't you help us, won't you please?" CHORUS

You got to be stoned out your mind.