12 Days of Christmas - Bayou Style
Day 1: Dear Boudreaux, Thanks for de bird in de Pear tree. I fix it las'
night with dirty rice. I doan tink de pear tree will grow in the swamp, so I
swap it for a Satsuma.
Day 2: Dear Boudreaux, You letter say you sent two turtle doves, but all I
got was two scrawny pigeons. Anyway, I mixed dem with andouille an made some
gumbo out of dem.
Day 3: Dear Boudreaux, Why doan you sent some crawfish? I'm tired of eating
dem darn birds. I gave two of dose prissy French chickens to Marie Trahan over
at Grans Bayou an fed the tird one to my dog, Phideaux. Marie needed some
sparring partners for her fighting rooster.
Day 4: Dear Boudreaux, Mon Dieux! I tol you no more dem darn birds. Deez
four, what you call dem "calling birds" were so noisy you could hear dem all de
way to Napoleonville. I used dere necks for my crab traps, an fed de rest of dem
to de gators.
Day 5: Dear Boudreaux, You finally sent somethin useful. I like dem golden
rings, me. I hocked dem at da pawn shop in Thibodeaux and got enuf money to fix
da shaft on my shrimp boat an buy a round for da boys at de Raisin' Cane Lounge.
Merci Beaucoup!
Day 6: Dear Boudreaux, Couchon! Back to da birds, you coonass turkey! Poor
egg suckin' Phideaux is scared to death at dem six geeses. He tried to eat dems
eggs and dey peck de heck out ah his snout. Dey good at eating cockroaches,
though. I may stuff one of dem wit erster dressing on Christmas day.
Day 7: Dear Boudreaux, I'm gonna wring your fool neck next time I see you.
Thibideaux, da mailman, is ready to kill ya. The merde from all dem birds is
stinkin' up his mailboat. He afraid someone will slip on dat stuff and sue him
good. I let those seven swans loose to swim on de bayou and some duck hunters
from Texas blasted dem out of de water. Talk to you tomorrow.
Day 8: Dear Boudreaux, Poor ole Thibeau, he had to make tree trips on his
mailboat to deliver dem 8 maids a milkin and their cows. One of dem cows got
spooked by da alligators and almost tipped over da boat. I doan like dem
shiftless maids, me no. I tolt dem to get to work guttin fish and sweeping the
shack but dey say it wasn't in dair contract. Dey probably think they to good ta
skin nutrias I caught las night too.
Day 9: Dear Boudreaux, What you trying to did Huh? Thibideaux had to borrow
the Lutcher ferry to carry dem jumpin twits you call Lords-a-Leaping across the
bayou. As soon as dey gots here dey wanted a tea break with crumpets. I doan
know what dat means but I says, "Well, La Di Da. You get Chicory coffee or
nuttin." Mon Dieu, Emile. What I'm gonna feed all dese bozos? Dey too snooty for
fried nutria, and de cows done eat my turnip greens.
Day 10: Dear Boudreaux, You got to be outs you mind! If de mailman don't kill
you, I will for sure. Today he deliver 10 floozies from Bourbon Street. Dey said
dey be "Ladies Dancin" but dey doan act like ladies even aroun dose Limey twits.
Dey almos left after one of dem got bit by a water moccasin over by da
out-house. I had to butcher 2 cows to feed toute le monde an get toilet paper.
The Sears catalog wasn't good enuf fer dose hoity toity lord's royal behin.
Day 11: Dear Boudreaux, Where Y'at. Cheerio an pip pip. Your 11 pipers piping
arrives today from the House of Blues, second lining as dey got off de boat. We
fixed stuffed goose and beef jambalaya, finished da whiskey and we having a
fais-do-do. Da new mailman he drink a bottle of Jack Daniel an he having a good
time yeah dancing with de floozies. Thibeau he jump off de Sunshine Bridge
yesterday, screaming your name. If you get a mysterious, ticking package in de
mail, doan open it man.
Day 12: Dear Boudreaux, I sorry to tell ya but I not your true love anymore,
no. After da fais-do-do, I spent sum time with Jacque, de head piper. We decide
to open a restaurant and club on de bayou. The floozies, pardon me, Ladies
dancing, can make $20 for to dance der, and de lords can be waiters an valet
park de boats. Since de maids have no more cows ta milk, I trained dem ta set my
crab traps, watch my trotlines, an run my shrimping business. We will robably
gross a million clams nex year.