Monday, August 2, 2010

First, a song...

"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?, " written by Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter, made popular by Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday in 1947.


Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

And miss it each night and day?

I know I'm not wrong, the feeling's getting stronger

The longer I stay away


Miss the moss-covered vines, tall sugar pines

Where mockingbirds used to sing

I'd love to see that old lazy Mississippi

Hurrying into spring


The moonlight on the bayou

A Creole tune that fills the air

I dream about magnolias in bloom

And I'm wishin I was there


Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

When that's where you left your heart?

And there's one thing more, I miss the one I care for

More than I miss New Orleans