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call it a journey of memories |
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a journey to bring back the time |
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through those days of wild abandon |
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when a young man was in his prime |
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call it a hopeless fantasy |
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trying to capture some long lost dreams |
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when you fell for the dark eyed creole girl |
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who came from new orleans |
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take in the latin quarter |
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the search for a familiar name |
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but paris has changed since you left her |
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and nothing much looks the same |
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fifi's cafe is now a strip club |
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with the arabian dancing queens |
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but not one can compare with the creole girl |
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who came from new orleans |
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perhaps it was too much to wish for |
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sometimes it's best to move on |
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but just for the sake of memories |
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I'll take a drink for the days long gone |
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and I went into the cafe chanson |
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and watched the world from tobacco stained screens |
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and I thought of the dark eyed creole girl |
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who came from new orleans |
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"bonsoir monsieur" said the waitress |
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"and what can I get for you?" |
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I said "excuse me for asking this question |
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but you remind me of someone I knew" |
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she laughed as if I was crazy |
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this young girl just out of her teens |
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but she looked like the dark eyed creole girl |
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who came from new orleans |
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I stayed till the bar had emptied |
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and we shared a bottle of wine |
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I said "I'm just trying to capture a memory |
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of love in a different time" |
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she said "maybe you think of my mother |
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we look so much alike it seems |
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she was known as the dark eyed creole girl |
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who came from new orleans" |
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how I loved the dark eyed creole girl |
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who came from new orleans |
