I stayed away from you too long
how can a true love go so wrong?
She put me in shame and in sorrow
Creole baby, Cajun queens
Quaint porches and windows,
filet de gumbo, the Basin beans
Your beautiful delta and bayous in greens
Oh, Louisiana, yea, yea, yea,
I'm flyin' on delta nine-O- three
high over Memphis, Tennessee
On southward to the sea, where I long to be
them Yankee nights are cold and long
she broke my heart and wrecked my home
Oh, take me back, oh, Louisiana
