Irish Songs With Easy Chords & Lyrics
Lakes Of Pontchartrain
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It | was on one | fine March | morning, | when | I bid New | Orleans a | dieu, |
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and I was on | the road to | Jackson | town, | my fortunes to | renew, |
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I | cursed | all foreign | money,, | | no credit | could I gain, |
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which filled my | heart with | longing for, | the | lakes of | Pontcha | rtrain |
I sat on board a railway car beneath the morning sun
and I rode the rails till evening when I lay me down again,
all strangers he hum hum till dark woods me came,and
I fall in love with a creol girlon the lakes of Pontchartrain
I said "my pretty creol girl, My money here's no good,
If it weren't for the alligators, I would sleep out in the wood,
your welcome here, kind stranger our house is very plain,
but we never turn a stranger out on the lakes of Pontchartrain"
She took me to her mamma's house, and treated me right well,
her hair upon here shoulders, in jet black ringlets fell,
to try to preen here beauty I'm sure would be in vain
so hansome was my creol girl on the lakes of Pontchartrain
I asked her would she marry me, and she it never would be,
while she had got a lover, and he was off at sea
she said that she would wait for him and faithful she remained
waiting for her sailor on the lakes of Pontchartrain
she value well my bonny old girl. Ill never see you no more
I wont forget your kindness in that cottage by the shore
and at every social gathering a golden glass I'll drain,
and drink the health to the creol girl on the lakes of Pontchartrain.
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