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The Lakes of Pontchartrain

from Tradition by Ranagri

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    12 traditional songs reworked by Ranagri
    Released February 28, 2014

    Produced and recorded by Donal Rogers for Goatskin Records

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The Lakes of Pontchartrain is an American (US) ballad about a man who is given shelter by a beautiful Louisiana Creole woman. He falls in love with her and asks her to marry him, but she is already promised to a sailor and declines the offer.

Original artwork by Simon Tarrant www.simontarrant.com

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

And 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


I stepped on board a railroad car beneath the morning sun

And I rode the rods till evening time I laid me down again

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

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

I said my pretty Creole Girl, my money here's no good
If it weren't for the alligators, I'd sleep out in the wood
You're welcome here kind stranger, our house is very plain
But we’d never turn a stranger out by the Lakes 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 here beauty, would surely be in vain

So handsome was my Creole girl by the Lakes of Ponchartrain

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

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

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

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



It's fare thee well, me Creole girl, I'll never see you more

I'll never forget your kindness in the cottage by the shore

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

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

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from Tradition, track released January 31, 2014
The Lakes of Pontchartrain - Traditional
Music - Ranagri
Artwork - Simon Tarrant -http://www.simontarrant.com/

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Anglo Irish 4 piece alt folk. Dónal Rogers. Eliza Marshall, Eleanor Dunsdon, Jordan Murray.. inc flutes, whistles, harp, piano, bodhrán, dulcimer,guitars & bouzouki.
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