Alligators snap at your ankles   And branches snap at your brain   If I ever get through this swamp alive   I'll nevermore pray for rain      This must be the place   And still it somehow don't seem right   Something in the moon could change   These endless days to lonely nights      I take a stroll down by the sea   And walk along the pier   Then I slip and hit my head   Now's the time to fear      I see the surface, see the rocks   See my past fly swiftly by   I feel the water in my lungs   And wake up screaming for my life      In my blue heaven   There's a bottle of Pontchartrain   Chalmette by moonlight   To take away the pain      Card sharks and blue harps   And dolphins who leap   In my blue heaven   Where I can laugh and I can weep      Black shapes zip into corners   The big lads start to crawl   To holes of their own making   In the cracks within the wall      Snakes and rats and spiders   I know that they're still there   I pray to God that I may sleep   Without a hope, without a care      In my blue heaven   There's a bottle of Pontchartrain   Chalmette by moonlight   To take away the pain      Felines and sea lions   And rain on the beach   In my blue heaven   With angels who aren't out of reach      In my blue heaven   There's a bottle of Pontchartrain   Chalmette by moonlight   To take away the pain      Nightingales sing   And the bells they will ring   In my blue heaven   The bells of Hell   Go ding a ling a ling