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CREOLE GIRL (LAKE OF PONTCHARTRAIN) Sung by: Mrs. Ben Daugherty Recorded in Cave City, AR 8/10/58 Click here to listen to the original recording I bid my friends adieu; Was on my road to Jackson, When I was forced to go. Swamps and alligators, I made my weary way. 'Twas there I met A handsome girl On the Lake of the Pontchartrain. I says to this fair maiden, "My money to me is no good. If it wasn't for the alligators, I'd sleep out in the woods." "Then welcome, stranger, welcome, Although my home, it is plain. I never return, oh, stranger, Out on the Lake of the Pontchartrain." She taken me to her mother's house; Treated me quite well. Down on her graceful shoulder, Her hair in ringlets fell. I tried to paint her beauty But, alas, it was all in vain. So handsome was this Creole girl On the Lake of the Pontchartrain. I asked that girl to marry me, And me she never denied. "Oh, no, I have a sweetheart, And he is far off sea. Oh, yes, I have a sweetheart, And true to him I remain, Until he does return to me On the Lake of the Pontchartrain." "Then adieu, fair maiden, adieu; I'll never see you anymore. Your kindness I'll never forget, The cottage by the seashore. And now my soul will circle-- Through the wineglass I will drink-- I'll drink success to the Creole girl, On the Lake of the Pontchartrain." |
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