Ludo - Lake Pontchartrain lyrics

I'll tell it like it happened
It was Darius and Noland and me
Just a few po' boys tryna
Get up out of Missouri took 55 to Louisiana
Stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish
Strictly chicken for me
Back out under thunderheads
The radio was Southern soul
They interrupted Clarence Carter with
A strange-ass local show they were saying:

"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be"

The rain was comin' down
The wind was howlin' outside of Slidell
It was the kinda night that makes you
Think the whole world's goin' to hell
We got off on an exit cause we
Couldn't read the map so great
Near the Choctaw Motel
We parked to deliberate
When out of the bayou came a man
Like the lake had a tongue
He was right up on the glass, all
Yellow-eyed, black teeth Bangin'
On the windshield
Screamin' like a demon at the
Top of his lungs:

"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends
Crawfish 'til the bitter end
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That's where you will get to see
Everything the water can be"

I was drivin' outta there as
Fast as a Camry could
But the interstate was flooded and I had
To take the road through the woods
Bad move in retrospect
The road disappeared in the rain
And I stood on the brakes when
I saw the sign: "Lake Pontchartrain"
Darius was yellin' that he saw
Somebody out in the swells
He jumped out runnin' and Noland
Was goin' as well
"Come back!" Why the hell would
They leave the car?!
And that's when I heard it make no mistake
The voices were calling them
From under the lake

(Ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Ah, ah ah ah ah, ah
Ah, ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah
Ah, ah ah ah ah, ah)
"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain"

The crawfish were screaming
The waves danced in time
My friends went in deeper, the water
It climbed
I watched in terror, the lake opened wide
And horribly roaring, it pulled them inside
That's how it happened, why would I lie?
There were no bodies I've got nuttin' to hide
I'm just a boy, lost his friends in the rain
Any more questions
Just go and ask Lake Pontchartrain