Key: D
Introduction:
D
This pain
G D
Is deeper than the Pontchartrain
G D
Now that I?m alone again
A
After losing you
D
I?m going down to Basin Street
G
Where the broken dreamers meet
D A
Where my broken heart can beat
D
Louisiana Blue.
G D
Those muddy bayous run just as black at Coca-Cola
E A
Ain?t no place I can be bluer, that I now of
D
I?m gonna pack my bags, turn up my collar
G G/F# Em
Put on my travelin? shoes
D
You should see
G D
This heart that you returned to me
G D
Now it only yearns to be
A
On the next train through
D
I just want to disappear
G
Headin? South away from here
D A
Runnin? till I turn my tears
D
Louisiana Blue.
D
I?m gonna pack my bags, turn up my collar
G G/F# Em
Put on my travelin? shoes
D G G/F#Em
I?m gonna raise the Misssissippi River, cryin? over you