Pontchartrain Beach Lyrics

pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach it used to be beautiful you'd throw a cast net off the pier and bring up shrimp by the bucket full but fresh water got mixed with brine and all those shrimp started dyin' i been sittin' on this pier all this time and ain't got nothin' but the hook on my line pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach was better than the gulf coast it had joey's seafood restaurant and the zephyr roller-coaster Joey's restaurant is still there but there ain't nothin' left of the old zephyr they said it was in dangerous need of repair so they came and knocked down the whole fun fair pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach that's where the white folks came black folks went to lincoln beach but we all swam together in lake pontchartrain fresh water don't mix with brine but everybody there got along fine it was hundred degrees in summer time and nobody paid no-one no mind on pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach now the water is a different hue but i believe a time is comin' again when we'll be swimming in lake pontchartrain you don't know how i miss it getting beat up by my brother and sister crying to ma whenever pa hit us ah you got me reminiscin' 'bout pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach what did we do to you you gave us the best days of summer and this is our gratitude fresh water mixed with brine now the whole lake is dyin' say your comin' back give me a sign give me one good bite on this fishin' line pontchartrain beach pontchartrain beach now the water is a different hue but i believe a time is comin' again when we'll be swimming in lake pontchartrain