Don't know if originals count (I would think so!) but I have one from my Disaster Song site- written after I passed on visiting New Orleans the summer before Katrina-


MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BE IN NEW ORLEANS

Hey if you ever go down to New Orleans
Won't you let me come along
To a place I still remember I first heard of in a song
Since then I've been there many times
Though only in my dreams
And my heart will always be in New Orleans

Oh let me wake up down on Basin Street
To the sound of Dixieland
Crowds with dancing, tappin feet
Snappin fingers, clappin hands
Oh let me be part of that scene I've seen
So often in my dreams
For my heart will always be in New Orleans

So if you're headin down the Mississippi River
To the Gulf of Mexico
Won't you let me come along
To that place I long to go
I heard about it in a song
And I've seen it in my dreams
Now my heart will always be in New Orleans

I've been down with the Chicago blues
Been soothed by Memphis soul
Been diggin' Appalachian folksongs
Dark as West Virginia coal
Now let me be part of that scene I've seen
So often in my dreams
For my heart will always be in New Orleans


©2005 Jon Waterman www.thedisastersongproject.com