《Lakes Of Ponchartrain》歌词

[00:00:00] Lakes Of Ponchartrain - Peter Case

[00:00:10] It was one fine march morning

[00:00:15] I bid new orleans adieu

[00:00:21] I was on my way to Jackson

[00:00:25] My fortune to renew

[00:00:31] I cursed all foreign money

[00:00:36] No credit could I gain

[00:00:41] Which filled my heart with longin'

[00:00:45] For the banks of ponchartrain

[00:00:52] I stepped on board a railroad

[00:00:56] Car

[00:00:57] Beneath the morning sun

[00:01:03] And I rode the rails 'til evenin'

[00:01:08] And I laid me down again

[00:01:13] All strangers there no friends to me

[00:01:18] 'Til a dark girl towards me came

[00:01:23] And I fell in love with a creole girl

[00:01:28] By the banks of pontchartrain

[00:01:34] I said oh my pretty creole girl

[00:01:40] My money here's no good

[00:01:47] But if it weren't for the alligators

[00:01:52] I'd sleep out in the wood

[00:01:57] She said you're welcome here kind stranger

[00:02:02] Our home it's very plain

[00:02:06] But we've never turned a stranger out

[00:02:11] By the banks of pontchartrain

[00:02:17] So she took me to her mama's house

[00:02:23] She treated me right well

[00:02:28] The hair across her shoulders

[00:02:33] In jet black ringlets fell

[00:02:38] To try and paint her beauty

[00:02:43] I know would be in vain

[00:02:47] So handsome was my creole girl

[00:02:52] By the banks of pontchartrain

[00:03:41] I asked would she marry me

[00:03:45] She'd said no it never could be

[00:03:50] For she has got a lover

[00:03:55] And he's off far at sea

[00:04:00] She said that she would wait for him

[00:04:04] And true she would remain

[00:04:10] 'Til he returned for his creole girl

[00:04:14] By the banks of the pontchartrain

[00:04:23] So fare thee well my creole girl

[00:04:28] I'll never see you more

[00:04:33] But I won't forget your kindness

[00:04:38] And the cottage by the shore

[00:04:43] And at each social gathering

[00:04:48] A flowin' glass I'll trane

[00:04:53] And drink a health to my creole girl

[00:04:58] From the banks

[00:04:59] Of pontchartrain