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Jane Siberry
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O it was one fine morning
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I bid New Orleans adieu
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And took the road to Jackson Town
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My fortune to renew
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I cursed all foreign money
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No credit could I gain
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Which had my heart a-longing
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For the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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I stowed aboard a railroad car
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Beneath the morning sun
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And I rode the rails 'til eventide
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'Til I finally lay me down
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No stranger would befriend me
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'Til a dark girl toward me came
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And I fell in love with a Creole girl
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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I said 'My bonnie Creole lass,
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My money 'tis no good
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And if it weren't for the alligators
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I'd sleep here in the wood.'
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'You're welcome here kind stranger
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Our house is very plain
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But we never turn a stranger out
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain.'
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She took me into her mama's house
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And she treated me right well
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The hair upon her shoulders
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In jet black ringlets fell
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To try to paint her beauty
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'Twould surely be in vain
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So handsome was my Creole lass
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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I asked her if she'd marry me,
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She said that ne'er could be
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For she had a lover
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Who was far away at sea
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She said that she would wait for him
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And true she would remain
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'Til he returned to his Creole lass
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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So fare thee well, my Creole lass,
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I'll ne'er see you no more
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And I'll ne'er forget your kindness
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In the cottage by the shore
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And at each social gathering
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A flowing bowl I'll drain
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I'll raise a glass to my Creole lass
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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I'll raise a glass to my bonnie lass
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On the Lakes of Pontchartrain
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