Meters, The - They All Ask'd For You Lyrics

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Love my job at the neworleans zoo I sing this song all day

I woke up with this song playing in my head after not hearing it for 25 years. So glad it's here on youtube. Guess I'm missing home.

RIP ART 🍀❤️

Hey, Lamba !!!! RIP but alway a Good Day for dat Music #YaHeard !

An all-timer! If you don’t like this song, you’re already dead. RIP, Mr. Art Neville.

Thanks you for all your great music Art. Miss you.

Rest in rhythm, Mr. Arthur Lanon Neville (17 December 1937 - 22 July 2019).

RIP Mr Art Neville! You are a true music legend!

RIP Art Neville

RIP Papa Funk Neville...thanks for the music and mempries.

The quintessential New Orleans song. Always puts a smile on my face & brings back the great Louisiana memories!!

bigfella422 b ... we are at a friends house right now dancing to this!!!

How 'bout some Grits and Fish Drippins......Hey Lamba!

Poor white boy lived off Napoleon and St Charles back in the 70s... Them black girls were so so fine

What a catchy tune. Was at the Audubon zoo the other day and this was playing in swamp cafe.

It's awesome

Heard this at Sports Bar....forgot how much I Liked this song!!!

I'm so happy to hear this morning - my daddy used to sing it to me when I was in a bad mood or acting like brat, lol ....he told me it was the song to sing while he was dropping me off at the zoo, my new home.... unless I snapped out of it. His being silly and clowning around always got me laughing and dancing!

New Orleans my city 🌃 love ❤️ it !! Born and raised !! And jus love ❤️ Mardi Gras time ! Love Endymion and Zulu and bacchus parades !! Slidell Titan n Selene !

Red beans and rice

They All Ask'd for You
The Meters

Hey, Lamba
Crawfish etouffee
They all asked for you
I went on down to the Audubon Zoo
And they all asked for you
They all asked for you
(For who?)
Well, they even inquired about you
I went on down to the Audubon Zoo
And they all asked for you
The monkeys asked
The tigers asked
And the elephant asked me too

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Boo, dee bee doo, poo boom
Boom, boom
Boo, dee bee doo, poo boom
Hey, Lamba (hey Lamba, hey Lamba, hey Lamba)
Red beans and rice
Creole gumbo
I went on up to the big ol' sky
And they all asked for you
(For who?)
They all asked for you
Well, they even inquire about you
I went on up to the big ol' sky
And they all asked for you
The ducks asked
The eagles asked
And the buzzard asked me too
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom
Boo, dee…

Early Bible translation 70 years befor King James was Wycliffe trans. Ask was spelt AKS over and over. Aks and it will be answered.

I love my city, so neat. come on down and treat yourself to a smile.

My god the nostalgia.

Big hearth.

I used to play this loud and sing loud with it at the glass shop I worked at up in atlanta, they all thought I was crazy to get excited about this song talking about food..... they don't know. I'm cajun, not creole, but I love it all the same.

krrr i  l love new orleans

60 people don't get axed about by anybody.

We don’t have songs like this anymore soon we’ll have songs like this

MY CAT IS A CAR
COS HE GOT HIT BY 1

New Orleans is a one of a kind town. .yep a song About our zoo ..you have to be from New Orleans to understand it..I'm in Denver now and I hate it here I am still a die hard Saints fan and always be..my brother still lives there I'm Metairie
.so I could go to Mardi Gras this time I'm
.I think I'm getting the flu so I had roast beef Po'boys.
what they call french bread sad just sad it feels like a sponge. ..I'll be there next year. .love and miss you my big easy..
Toni maucelli

+ Bernadette Sandoval
This song really makes me want to go to Mardi Gras one day. Right now I'm in Minnesota where I've been my entire life.
I first heard this song just about a year ago from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxq_nagP04

Happy Mardi Gras everybody!

My favorite version of this song.

0:44 what the heck did i just hear

da monkies ask'd fa u

Red Beans And Rice!!!

where y'at new orleans peoples? How 'bout them New Orleans Saints! Who Dat

At the moment, I'm sitting in my room trolling!

WHODAT! BLACK&GOLD4LIFE

We be moving back to the Quarter, now that mom passed, at 95..up here in NYC. We be getting on our Who Dat...

@Cynthia Hawkins Sorry to hear about yur mom.I love NYC too.
WHODAT!

WHO DAT💛⚜🖤

I lived near the Park and the Zoo when this song came on the radio. Lawd !
I musta been at the right place at the right time!!!! Was also blessed to here them guys lots of time, mostly for free.

Hey, la ba.

Thanks, OP. I think the giraffes asked about you.

I first heard this song in elementary in Baton Rouge back in 1997. This song always made me want red beans and rice. I love that I grew up in the south. Home sweet home

Dey all ax fo' you. Goddamn I love me some Funky Meters. And I agree with the comment below this one, nobody who didn't grow up in francophone Louisiana will understand all the things in the song, .And by the way, if you speak proper Parisian French it will help you understand the literal translation. Alas Creole French isn't French like those in Paris know it, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the song. The hilarious absurdity of it will work its magic on you anyway.

Here's a cheat for non-Creole French conversant folks: "Laissez le bon temps roulez" means "Let the good times roll" and if ever a city can have a motto, that's the universal motto for New Orleans, a city where having a good time (and be damned any consequence) is the highest calling of all.

And hey... am I the only one who, after looking around to make sure nobody's watching, succumbs to the urge to dance, a good old New Orleans shuffle?

the monkees axed fo u

The fact that we sang this song at my Catholic School growing up😐😂

hey laba

dey all axed for yu ...I love my life

The 🎆 *_Rock-Afire Explosion_* 🎇 lead me here!

never from south...never understand

King Joey Well, creative metophoric conversation styled in deep southern areas proved too be
A clean whimsical kind of family food and fun for someone.

I remember my Mom and Dad dancing in the streets off this I wish my children could witness the my kind of carnivals but even till dis day I be trying

Only in the New Orleans. The world will never understand us. Only song about the zoo in the whole wide world. For just about everything in New Orleans, there is a song. That is another reason why I love my City.

Silly it isnt just about the zoo

"ZOO Orleans"

I understand. I have been there. What a wondeful tree weeks at your City. Vere is my heart, i ask ? Say hellou everybody from Finland. Only in the New Orleans, thats true. I`m looking forward to do it again-

Simon and Garfunkel might disagree with you about the only song. Naturally, I would never get involved in such an emotionally charged issue!

@Wes Miller I was going to pull out Simon and Garfunkel - At the Zoo , Peter Paul and Mary - Going to the Zoo, but I like yours better!

I remember this when I was little  it was popular with my Parents .

And the tiger assed him to! 😂

Superior, this is what music is all about. Top shelf.

I work at a record store in Texas, can't put this one on without selling at least one copy. Viva The Meters!

Dat damn Audubon Zoo didnt let no colored folks in when I was a kid.

I never knew the Audubon Zoo was like that. That really sucks :(

It was strictly segregated for a long time...

30 times a day on WTIX during the season.

I have to send a copy of my favorite things that you have a good idea. I am a big

Great version of an Uptown ditty

C'est si bon!

Love it. Brings me back...

Happy Mardi Gras!!!

Sometimes being a New Yorker is a real pain..I get words and names wrong that I really ought to know. Hubby lived on Jackson Square for decades before Katrina brought him to NY in October 2005, so he is patient with me. I do catch myself saying dumb stuff like BURgundy street, CRAYole food..(like the crayons?) and Lordy... I only just got the hang of Tchoupitoulas..(which is probably spelled wrong). Be kind, and know my heart's in the right place even if my pronunciation isn't.....when we come back in 2018, for NOLA 300, I should have it right, by then!!!

BURgundy is the proper NOLA pronunciation .....not Burgundy ...you go girl

Tchoupique tou las!

@obiwan2112 yes, and since you're a know it all, i bet you you don't know what it means...

Cynthia Hawkins it's Creole...(Cree-ole). I'm a Creole woman, that's how I know how to pronounce it.

@Dianna Riley, You are Beautiful!

I found out about this song thanks to the Rock Afire Explosion, but after listening to it like 2 or 3 times, I've become addicted. Now, I've listened to it about 20 times. XD

I'm here from Rockafire too lol.

Next time I run into my neighbor Aaron Neville here on Union Square I'm gonna tell him how nuts dis song be makin' us...

Wow, this takes me back! Haven't heard this in years.

It's a new Orleans song dummy not mobile Audubon zoo is the name of our zoo get it right

correct ...Audubon

I went on down....This song has brought such joy to so many over many decades. My wife and I after all these years took a few turns on our private dance floor tonight listing to this tune and having so many very fond memories of the song and what it brings to mind...all the memories and they all ask'd for you!

That's really sweet. :)

Red beans & rice, creole gumbo
I moved to California in 1999 and never realized how much I miss New Orleans until I heard this song again.

The lack of home cooking out there didn't make you miss it?

Dupre' we're practically cousins!

If ya donna like this song so s*** a purple twinkie on Conti street. 

My Dad used to sing this to me when I was a youngster!  Great memories:)

Erin Sumlin Me too! In the early 70s :)

So did my NOLA uncle! He sang and I clapped — and I am from Alabama! Those nutty animals on the bayou! That was when I was little and we visited. Now I’m old and I still love this song!

Played this tonight in the very northeast corner of Tennessee, these hillbillies are looking at this flatlander  / swamp boy like he's crazy

This NETN hillbilly would be dancing with you!

Dey's only one ting wrong wid dis song -- it becomes a "BRAINWORM"..now we a;; can't stop singing it!!! He'p me, somebody!!

lose the dis and the ting ....that ain't NOLA

Hey cher!!!

..and that is pronounced ...Sha ,...really it is

Grits and fish drippings!

This song sucks.

Q: Why are you here?
A: How else would I know that it sucked?

Excellent song...Great band...

If you aren't from the south you will never understand

Pierre... Baton Rouge is still southern la hun.

Stefani Florreich Cutcliffe ...mais yea cher (cher /sha)

I am the South I got Gulf of Mexico DNA running through my blood

True Dat!!!!

Got me hungry with all that food talk! :-D

Wtf is axing?

You don't know what axing is??? Come on it's easy....think about it, musicians...you know...lol

Calis708 Its how some of us say "asked" down here in Nola.

It means ask. I asked same thing when I moved to New Orleans. Bartender kept saying axe him! Huh? You want me to axe him?😂😂😂

Asking..

im fighting for my motherland.

check it out

ever hear the rock afire explosion do this song?

I Think @dooklarue Posted It..

@starr fisher Yeah.

@SouthernMetalMonster speak for ya' self! It is the National Anthem in my part of La!!!!  :-)

For anyone who grew up in south Louisiana, this song is as recognizable as the national anthem

This brings back so many memories of listening to WTIX on my little baby blue AM radio while growing up. Thanks for posting it. :-)

I went to Tulane University on a football scholarship in the late 70's and fell in love with NOLA and the people there! What a unique and enchanted city! I miss her!

No other place like the Crescent City. It has a culture of it's own, like going to a foreign country without a passport. The only place in the world to get a real muffuletta sandwich at it's place of origin, the Central Grocery at the French Market in the Quarter.

Frank's Deli ,,,2 doors down rocked as well

Hey labba

Instant lift

Heard this song at popeye's fried chicken lol. I love it

I used to sing this to my sons when they was youngins lol

My daddy used to sing this to us as kids. In NOLA ...good times!!

Been lookin for this forever!!!

Now this is New Orleans...

Watching Zulu and Rex on Canal St.

yea you right

Audubon zoo baby!!!!