New Orleans
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Standard tuning.

    Intro:  C   F   G

    C
    You'll never know
                C7
    What heaven means
                 F
    Until you've been down to New Orleans
        G7
    You ain't been livin' till you cuddle and coo
    C    (tacet)
    With some black-eyed baby by de old bayou


    C
    You've never seen
                 C7
    You've never seen those Cupid doll queens
                   F
    Like they got 'em in New Orleans
         G7
    And, ooh, they love you like no-one can
       C     (tacet)
    It makes you awful glad that you were born a man.

                       F
    If-if-if you ain't been there
                   F
    Then you ain't been nowhere
                C
    The livin's lazy and the lovin's fine
                G7
    If you feel low down
               F
    So help me Hannah
        C      (tacet)
    You should lose the blues in Loui-si-i-si-ana.

            C
    Get the lead
            C7
    Get the lead out of your jeans
                                           F
    And hot foot it down, hot foot down to where?
    F
    New Orleans
    G7
    Louisiana baby tells you stay awhile
    F           G7          C
    Live it up, love it up, southern style
                F    G7  (tacet)         C    F    G7   C
    Way down in New      New Orleans.


Transcribed by Ferry Falkenburg (ferry@acc.nl)