LYRICS: New Orleans

Album:

King Creole, Volume 1

Lyrics / Music:

Sid Tepper / Roy C. Bennett, 1957

Catalog number:

EPA 4319

Recording date:

January 15, 1958

Release date:

June 15, 1958

Observation:

- Part of the soundtrack for the film "King Creole" (1958)

- Re-released in "King Creole" (1958)

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LYRICS

You'll never know what heaven means

Until you've been down to New Orleans

You ain't been livin' till you cuddle and coo

With some black-eyed baby by the old bayou

You've never seen

You've never seen those Cupid doll queens

Like they got 'em in New Orleans

And, oh, they love you like no one can

It makes you awful glad that you were born a man

If-if-if you ain't been there

Then you ain't been nowhere

The livin's lazy and the lovin's fine

If you feel low down, so help me Hannah

You should lose the blues in Louisiana

Get the lead

Get the lead out of your jeans

And hot foot it down--hot foot it down to where?

New Orleans

Louisiana, baby, tells you stay awhile

Live it up, love it up, southern style

Way down in New, New Orleans