New Orleans

(You'll never know what heaven means)

You'll never know what heaven means

Until you've been down to New Orleans (New Orleans)

You ain't been livin' till you cuddle and coo

With some black-eyed baby by the old bayou

You've never seen Cupid doll queens

You've never seen, you've never seen those Cupid doll queens like they got 'em

In New Orleans (New Orleans)

And, ooh-ooh, they love you like no one can, ah

It makes you awful glad that you were born a man

If-if-if you ain't been there (Been there)

Then you ain't been nowhere (Nowhere)

The livin's lazy and the lovin's fine (It's so fine)

If you feel low down (Low down)

So helpful, me Hannah (Hannah)

You should lose the blues in Louisi-ouisi-ouisiana

(So get the lead o of your jeans)

Get the lead, get the lead out of your jeans and hot foot it down, hot foot down to where?

New Orleans (New Orleans)

Louisiana, baby, tells you stay awhile (Yeah)

Live it up (Yeah), love it up (Yeah), southern style

Way down in New (Down in New), New Orleans