| Standin on the corner
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| Of toulouse and dauphine
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| Waitin on marie-ondine
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| Im tryin to place a tune
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| Under a louisiana moonbeam
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| On the planet of new orleans
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| In a bar they call the saturn
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| And in her eyes of green
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| And somethin that she said in a dream
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| Inside of my suit I got my mojo root
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| And a true love figurine
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| For the planet of new orleans
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| New orleans — the other planet
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| With other life upon it And everythin thats shakin in between
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| If you should ever land upon it You better know whats on it The planet of new orleans
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| Now Im tryin to find my way
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| Through the rain and the steam
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| Im lookin straight ahead through the screen
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| And then I heard her say
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| Somethin in the limousine
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| bout takin a ride across the planet of new orleans
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| If she was an ace
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| And I was just a jack
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| And the cards were never seen
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| We could have been the king and queen
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| But she took me back to her courtyard
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| Where magnolia perfume screams
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| Behind the gates and the granite
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| Of the planet of new orleans |