Bayou Song Lyrics by Barenaked Ladies

Bayou Song

The background for approximately the 1st verse of the song is:
Bayou, Bayou, etc.

Y'know, I tried to call you, but I don't got your number.
I wanna love you but I know you're not dumber than me
You gotta be dumb to be my girl.
I tried to kiss you but you ran away,
I tried to kiss you but it was the other day when your were on another planet
A planet out near the sun, where people live near the sun and sunny people live Woo
Yeah

OOOOOOH, I got myself a sister, when I was just born
I said to my parents "look out, I feel I have got to warn you,
I'm nobody's brother, I'm nobody's son" Although when i walk really goddamn wuick sometimes I
Break into a run

I got myself a raisin, It's made form ancient grapes [ancient grapes yeah]
sometimes when it's Craisin, it lays beats down on tape
A California raisin, it's nobody's fruit [nobody's fruit baby]
A California raisin, It's nobody's fruit.
YEAH [Steve: Woo woo woo woo woooooo