CORRECT LYRICS

Lyrics : Lakes of Ponchartrain

It was one fine March morning
I bid New Orleans Adieu
And I took the road to Jackson Town
My fortune to renew

I cursed all foreign money
No credit could I gain
Which filled my heart with a longing for
The Lakes of Ponchartrain

I stepped on board of a railroad car
Beneath the morning sun
I rode the rods till evening
And I laid me down again

All strangers there no friends to me
'Til a dark girl towards me came
And I fell in love with the Creole Girl
By the Lakes of Ponchartrain

I said "Me pretty Creole Girl
Me money here's no good
If it weren't for the alligators
I'd sleep out there in the wood"

"You're welcome here kind stranger
From such sad thoughts refrain"
"For me Mammy welcomes strangers
By the Lakes of Ponchartrain"