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[Verse]
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Call it a journey of memories
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A journey to bring back the time
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Through those days of wild abandon
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When a young man was in his prime
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Call it a hopeless fantasy
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Trying to capture some long lost dreams
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When you fell for the dark eyed Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans
[Verse]
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Take in the Latin Quarter
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The search for a familiar name
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But Paris has changed since you left her
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And nothing much looks the same
[Verse]
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Fifi's café is now a strip club
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With the Arabian Dancing Queens
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But not one can compare with the Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans
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Perhaps it was too much to wish for
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Sometimes it's best to move on
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But just for the sake of memories
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I'll take a drink for the days long gone
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And I went into the Café Chanson
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And watched the world from tobacco stained screens
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And I thought of the dark eyed Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans
[Instrumental]
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[Verse]
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"Bonsoir monsieur", said the waitress
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"And what can I get for you?"
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I said, "Excuse me for asking this question
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But you remind me of someone I knew"
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She laughed as if I was crazy
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This young girl just out of her teens
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But she looked like the dark eyed Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans
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I stayed 'til the bar had emptied
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And we shared a bottle of wine
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I said, "I'm just trying to capture a memory
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Of love in a different time"
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She said, "Maybe you think of my mother
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We look so much alike it seems
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She was known as the dark eyed Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans"
[Outro]
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How I loved the dark eyed Creole girl
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Who came from New Orleans
