Oh Louisiana

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Oh, Louisiana, I stayed away from 
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you too long
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Oh, Louisiana, how can a true love 
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go so wrong?
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She put me in shame and in sorrow 
and I come home tomorrow
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Oh, Louisiana

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Oh, Louisiana, yeah, yeah, Creole 
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baby, Cajun queens
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Quaint porches and windows, filet 
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de gumbo, the Basin beans
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Your beautiful Delta and bayous in 
greens
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Oh, Louisiana

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[Verse 3]
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Oh, Louisiana, yea-e-e, yea, I'm 
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flying on Delta Nine-o-three
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Right over St. Louis, high over 
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Memphis, Tennessee
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On southward to the sea, where I 
long to be
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Oh, Louisiana

[Verse 4]
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Oh, o, Louisiana, yea, yea, them 
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Yankee nights are cold and long
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Oh, Louisiana, she broke my heart 
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and wrecked my home
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She shamed me in sorrow, to face my 
tomorrow
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Oh, take me back, oh, Louisiana