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Randy Newman lyrics
New Orleans Wins the War lyrics
Don't remember much about my baby days,
But I been told
We used to live on Willow near the Garden District
Next to the Sugar Bowl
Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon
One side for White and one side for Colored
I remember trash cans floatin' down Canal Street
It rained every day one summer
Momma used to take me to Audubon Park
Show me the ways of the world
She said, ";here comes a white boy, there goes a black one,
that one's an octoroon
This little cookie here's a macaroon, that big round thing's
a red balloon
And the paper down here's called the Picayune
And here's a New Orleans tune";
In 1948 my Daddy came to the city
Told the people that they'd won the war
Maybe they'd heard it, maybe not
Probably they'd heard it and just forgot
'Cause they built him a platform there in Jackson Square
And the people came to hear him from everywhere
They started to party and they partied some more
'Cause New Orleans had won the war
(We knew we'd do it, we done whipped the Yankees)
Daddy said, ";I'm gonna get this boy out of this place
Bound to sap his strength
People have fun here, and I think that they should
But nobody from here every come to no good
They're gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he's saved
Then throw fireworks all 'round his grave";
So he took us down to the airport, and flew us back to L.A.
That was the end of my baby days
Blue blue morning, blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away
It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
Lose those bad dreams
Those gray clouds above you, what you want them around
with you for?
You got someone to love you
Who could ask for more?
It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day
All your bad dreams drift away
Other Randy Newman lyrics:
Love Story lyrics
Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad lyrics
So Long Dad lyrics
I Think He's Hiding lyrics
Linda lyrics
Laughing Boy lyrics
Cowboy lyrics
I think It's Going To Rain Today lyrics
The Beehive State lyrics
Davy the Fat Boy lyrics
Let's Burn Down The Cornfield lyrics
Suzanne lyrics
Yellow Man lyrics
Rosemary lyrics
If You Need Oil lyrics
Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues lyrics
Underneath The Harlem Moon lyrics
Have You Seen My Baby? lyrics
Mama Told Me Not To Come lyrics
Lucinda lyrics
Sail Away lyrics
Lonely At The Top lyrics
He Gives Us All His Love lyrics
Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear lyrics
Old Man lyrics
Political Science lyrics
Burn On lyrics
Memo To My Son lyrics
Last Night I Had A Dream lyrics
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) lyrics
Rednecks lyrics
Birmingham lyrics
Marie lyrics
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) lyrics
Every Man a King lyrics
Kingfish lyrics
Rollin' lyrics
Louisiana 1927 lyrics
Little Criminals lyrics
Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father lyrics
Jolly Coppers On Parade lyrics
In Germany Before The War lyrics
Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America lyrics
Baltimore lyrics
I'll Be Home lyrics
Rider In The Rain lyrics
You Can't Fool The Fat Man lyrics
Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier) lyrics
Pretty Boy lyrics
Mr. Sheep lyrics
Ghosts lyrics
They Just Got Married lyrics
The Girls In My Life (Part 1) lyrics
William Brown lyrics
Pants lyrics
It's Money That I Love lyrics
The Story of a Rock and Roll Band lyrics
Spies lyrics
Half A Man lyrics
I Love L.A. lyrics
Christmas In Capetown lyrics
The Blues lyrics
Same Girl lyrics
Miami lyrics
Real Emotional Girl lyrics
There's A Party At My House lyrics
I'm Different lyrics
Song For The Dead lyrics
My Life Is Good lyrics
Take Me Back lyrics
Dixie Flyer lyrics
Something Special lyrics
Bad News from Home lyrics
Follow the Flag lyrics
Four Eyes lyrics
Falling in Love lyrics
Masterman and Baby J lyrics
Red Bandana lyrics
It's Money that Matters lyrics
I Want You to Hurt Like I Do lyrics
Shame lyrics
The World Isn't Fair lyrics
Going Home lyrics
I Want Everyone to Like Me lyrics
My Country lyrics
I'm Dead lyrics
Every Time It Rains lyrics
Great Nations of Europe lyrics
The One You Love lyrics
Big Hat, No Cattle lyrics
Better off Dead lyrics
I Miss You lyrics
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