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Thread #7479   Message #45299
Posted By: Joe Offer
13-Nov-98 - 09:58 PM
Thread Name: What happened to the Intl. Lyr Server?
Subject: Lyr Add: WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
International Lyrics Server seems to work normally for me, although I noticed it was a bit sluggish earlier this week.
I also noticed that OLGA, the on-line guitar archive, is back online.
For jazz standards, you might try Rabid Squirrel's Jazz Archive.

I didn't find the song at any of the normal search sites, but I did come up with it by doing a Hotbot search for the second line of the chorus (the first line brought up too many 'hits'). I found more verses on papers, but my social life calls. I'll post more later, unless some kind soul wants to do it first. Hope this satisfies you for now.
-Joe Offer-

WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
(Henry Creamer and J. Turner Layton, 1922)


CHORUS:
Way down yonder in New Orleans
in the land of dreamy scenes
There's a garden of Eden,
you know what I mean

Well, Creole babies with flashing eyes
softly whisper with tender sighs,
And then you Stop!
Oh won't you give your lady fair a little smile.
And then you Stop!
You bet your life you'll linger there a little while

There is heaven right here
on earth with those beautiful queens
Way down yonder in New Orleans

REPEAT

MUSIC TO FADE