Thanks to Gerry for suggesting this back on 11-Feb-2014. I just now got around to looking it up and I love it! I live at the opposite end of the Mississippi from New Orleans, and Mardi Gras here is just about like Kansas. My transcription from Spotify:


MARDI GRAS IN KANSAS
As recorded by Truckstop Honeymoon on "Great Big Family" (2008)

It's Mardi Gras in Kansas; there ain't no parade.
Still I put on a boa and some plastic beads and this little tutu I made.
As I walked up and down this Midwest town, all I could see were cars
With workin' stiffs goin' to work as if they didn't know it was Mardi Gras.

Mardi Gras in Kansas ain't like it is in New Orleans.
There's no marchin' band, no daiquiri stand, no hookers and no drag queens,
No tourists fallin' in the gutter as they put their margaritas away.
Mardi Gras in Kansas is just another Tuesday.

I should 'a' known somethin' was up when I saw there was snow on the ground.
The neighbors were diggin' out their driveway and nobody else was around.
I thought I made a mistake; maybe I got the wrong date; maybe this was all a dream.
This is Mardi Gras for sure, but it's Kansas, not New Orleans.

Mardi Gras in Kansas, it just ain't the same.
There's no Mardi Gras throws, no cups to go, nobody playin' Liza Jane.
Still I put on a rumba, danced a little number, but I felt like kind of a freak,
'Cause Mardi in Kansas is just another day of the week.

So next year I got a good plan, babe; I tell you what we're gonna do:
Gonna start the very first ever Kansas Mardi Gras Krewe.
Gonna shut down this whole town; we're gonna close off every street,
And them Kansas high-school marchin' bands are gonna learn a different beat.

Mardi Gras in Kansas ain't like it is in New Orleans.
There's no marchin' band, no daiquiri stand, no hookers and no drag queens;
But it's gonna change; it's gonna get strange; it'll be Kansas like you've never seen
When we got Mardi Gras in Kansas just like they got in New Orleans.
Yeah, we'll have Mardi Gras in Kansas just like they got in New Orleans.