Crusader Of Cool

Beginning at the ending of the Civil WarThe Mobile Mardi Gras was no moreThe Union soldiers occupied the townWouldn’t let anybody party downThe Lost Cause Minstrels, into town they came,With a man dressed in feathers and a walking caneStole a coal wagon and an old gray muleMarched downtown despite the ridiculeSomebody tell me, what’s his name?Somebody tell me, what’s his name?Somebody tell me, what’s his name?Joe Cain!What’s his name?Joe Cain!What’s his name?Joe Cain!— From ‘Old Slac’ by Grayson Capps and the Lost Cause MinstrelsIn the birthplace of Mardi Gras, Mobile Alabama, a man named Joesph Stillwell Cain decided to start a rebellion of frivolity and revelry. In 1868, a local "man of wit" donned on a make-shift costume to portray a proud Chickasaw Indian Chief and joined by a band of his merry mates, called the Lost Cause Minstrels, paraded illegally in the streets of an occupied southern city of Union troops. Taking the name Chief  Slacabamorini