The Lakes Of Pontchartrain lyrics - The Coronas

It was on one bright March morning, I bid New Orleans Adieu

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 longing for the Lakes of Ponchartrain

Well, I stepped on board of a railroad car underneath the morning sun

And I rode the roads all evening and lay me down again

All strangers there no friends to me 'til a dark girl toward me came

And I fell in love with the Creole Girl, by the Lakes of Ponchartrain

Well, I said "Me pretty Creole Girl, my money here's no good

And if it weren't for all the alligators, I'd sleep out in the wood"

She said "You're welcome here kind stranger, though my house is very plain

"But we've never turned a stranger out, on the banks of Ponchartrain"

She took me to her mammy's house and treated me right well

The hair upon her shoulders in jet black ringlets fell

To try to paint her beauty, I'm sure 't would be in vain

So handsome was my Creole girl by the Lakes of Ponchartrain

Well, I asked her if she'd marry me, she said this could never be

For she had got a lover and he was lost at sea

She said that she would wait for him and true that she would remain

Till he'd return to his Creole girl, by the Lakes of Ponchartrain

So fare thee well, my Creole girl, may I never see you more

But I'll never forget your kindness, your cottage by the shore

And at each social gathering, a flowing glass I'll drain

And I'll drink a health to my Creole girl, by the Lakes of Ponchartrain