The Noir Players - The Witch Of New Orleans, A Waltz

 The Noir Players is new to Big And Tall Records, and the group is kind of hard to categorize. They're somewhat of a pickup group with artists joining for specific projects. The leader of the group is Thomas Fauren, a session musician who has a fine baritone voice (he's heard on this recording). 

Noir, the French Word for black, in their name for good reason, as most of their performances are dark in nature. Funeral marches, songs of evil entities, etc. This song, The Witch Of New Orleans plays on some of the superstitions of that area, and is more spooky Halloween type music than seriously dark. So the group has their campier side as well. It is in the form of a waltz, a tribute to western music traditions, for there has been many Dances Of Death over the years by many composers, such as Danse Macabre by Saint-Saëns and Totendanz by Liszt. 

 When the sky is festering with blackness, 

And your soul is rotting within. 

Then you need to bond with the darkness, 

And go to her den of sin! 

When your enemies have got the upper hand, 

and you don't know what to do. 

Take the bull by the horns, and make a stand,

 And come visit her satanic land! 

 

The witch of New Orleans 

casts spells while you wait! 

Nothing is as it seems, 

you will find out much too late!

 

 She's had many customers through the years, 

Each one its own peculiar case.

Some have dealt with a flood of tears, 

some with evil too dark to face. S

he's helped ev'ry one who's came, 

To stand up and face the fray. 

But none of them have ever been the same, 

She charges a fee hard to pay.... 

 

The witch of New Orleans 

will take special care of you! 

Her roots and berries, incantations, 

will make you a special brew! 

 

If you want her help, a word to the wise,

 her fee is very dear. 

She will merely change you into her guise, 

of a new and much stronger fear. 

For you see, she has a force behind her back, t

hat guides her ev'ry move. 

A figure that's powerful draped in black,

 and that gives her its full approve!

 

 The witch of New Orleans 

exchanges earthly extremity 

for what she's about to do, 

and condemns you....to a soulless....eternity.