Kitchen Fool
The kitchen he ruled
Grew up colored Louisiana
Jim Crow rule
Plowed behind a mule
Till the Second World War
He joined the army
He went so far
And that’s what it took
That Creole became a
US Army chef cook
Laissez les bons temps rouler
Let the good times roll

Kitchen Fool
The kitchen he ruled
They called him frenchy
Frenchy was cool
Joined the gambling pool
A black soldier phenomena
Black soldiers not yet given a gun
That was okay
They built the great
Alaskan Highway
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Let the good times roll

Kitchen Fool
The kitchen he ruled
Alaskan mornings frost was cruel
He kept his cool
Biscuits pancakes coffee hot
Buffalo soldiers always ate a lot
He did alright
Seventeen hundred dollars
In card game one night
Laissez les bons temps rouler
Let the good times roll

Kitchen Fool
The kitchen he ruled
He knew sleeping with
to much cash was uncool
He avoided the duel
Went back to the kitchen for sure
Paid five dollars to sleep
on the kitchen floor
And with that money
he bought land
Cause he wired it to
Lafayette Louisiana
Laissez les bons temps rouler
Let the good times roll

Kitchen Fool
The kitchen he ruled
Sent two sons to medical school
He cooked Christmas Yule
A trick he would pull
He needed guitar music
to make his cup feel full
And what would the old chef say
Play me some blues
And put me in the alley right away

Kitchen Fool