Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Lakes Of Pontchartrain, artist - The Be Good Tanyas. Album song Blue Horse, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 27.06.2019
Record label: Birthday Cake Media
Song language: English
Lakes Of Pontchartrain |
T’was on one bright March morning I bid New Orleans adieu |
And I took the rode to Jackson town, me fortune to renew |
I cursed all foreign money, no credit could I gain |
Which filled me heart with longin' for the Lakes of Pontchartain |
I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun |
And I rode the roads 'til evening and I laid me down again |
All strangers here, no friends to me 'til a dark girl towards me came |
And I fell in love with a Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain |
I said my pretty Creole girl, me money here’s no good |
If it weren’t for the alligators I’d sleep out in the wood |
You’re welcome here kind stranger, our house it’s very plain |
But we never turn a stranger out at the Lakes of Pontchartrain |
She took me to her mummy’s house and she treated me quite well |
The hair upon her shoulders in jet black ringlets fell |
To try and paint her beauty I’m sure t’would be in vain |
So handsome was my Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain |
I asked her if she’d marry me, she’d said it could never be |
For she had got another and he was far at sea |
She said that she would wait for him and true she would remain |
'Til he returned for his Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain |
So fair thee well me bonny o' girl I never see no more |
But I’ll ne’er forget your kindness and the cottage by the shore |
And at each social gathering a flowin' glass I’ll raise |
And drink a health to me Creole girl from the Lakes of Pontchartrain |