Fat Tuesday On Bourbon Street

Masked trickery within bayou nights Under the diffusing Dixie lanterns glow Flowing songs lost within legend and myth Dancing with a quipster and pierrot Lovers and friends hidden in masquerade In sequined illusions and beaded dancing These candid moments fading into night Mirroring the revelry of years long past Bal masque shadows fill the masquerade Veiled in the fables of uninhibited fantasy On champagne sidewalks to dance the night Adorned and costumed in flashes of gold Legends ruminating in harlequin mists Those disguised in the colors of fantasy Every corner filled visions of Mardi Gras Dancing as jazz bands parade Bourbon Street Fat Tuesday erupts in New Orleans again.