New Orleans Were I Was Born
DIGITAL MUSIC FILE
If I could just go back in time to an August yesterday
I would heed every warning, pleading voices sent my way
But now I must put behind, ‘What might have been” or “Should’ve done”
And pick up what is left of life and walk on toward the rising sun
We thought we dodged the bullet once again the lucky ones
By morning water was rising nature’s wrath had just begun
Pictures of the stranded waving from the rooftops will remain
Here within my heart until I see them once again
Chorus:
Oh the city of a million lights a million broken dreams
From every walk of life they made their way to New Orleans
From the cradle to this moment she was everything to me
Now the crown jewel of the Bayou’s just a shattered memory
Gone is the music of the Quarter you could hear from miles away
The diamond necklace of casinos strung along the Gulf port Bay
The Creole beauty’s flashing eyes on the banks of the Pontchartrain
Pearly smiles and jambalaya nowhere now in New Orleans
If I could just go back in time to an August yesterday
I would heed every warning pleading voices sent my way
She’s drowning as I write this on a bright September morn
I’m in Houston but my heart’s in New Orleans where I was born
Oh, the city of a million lights now a million broken dreams
From every walk of life they made their way to New Orleans
Though there’s not much left to hang on to somehow I’ll carry on
By the grace of God and precious memories of my Louisiana home
