The Lakes Of Pontchartrain by Christy Moore, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

The Lakes Of Pontchartrain

Biography:

Christy Moore, a native of Co. Kildare, Ireland, found fame as a member of the legendary tradition folk band Planxty. Since then he has carved out his own career as a consummate solo performer. In the 1980s Christy teamed up with Donal Lunny to form the innovative Moving Hearts.

Christy Moore started in the music business in the mid-sixties, when his life as a bank clerk was interrupted by a bank strike, and he moved to England. There he became involved in the folk music scene at the time

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G D Em C
It was on one bright March morning
G D G
I bid New Orleans adieu
G D Em C
And I took the road to Jackson town
G D C
My fortune to renew
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I cursed all foreign money
G D C
No credit could I gain
G D Em C
Which filled my heart with longing for

G D G
The lakes of Pontchartrain
G D Em C
I stepped on board of a railroad car
G D G
Beneath the morning sun
G D Em C
And I rode the rods till evening
G D C
And I laid me down again
G D Em C
All strangers there no friends to me
G D C
Til a dark girl towards me came
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And I fell in love with a Creole girl
G D G
By the lakes of Pontchartrain

G D Em C
I said 'My pretty Creole girl
G D G
My money here's no good
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And if it weren't for the alligators
G D C
I would sleep out in the wood'
G D Em C
You're welcome here kind stranger
G D C
Our house is very plain
G D Em C
And we never turned a stranger out
G D G
On the lakes of Pontchartrain'

G D Em C
She took me into her mammy's house
G D G
And treated me right well
G D Em C
The hair upon her shoulders
G D C
In jet black ringlets fell
G D Em C
To try to paint her beauty
G D C
I'm sure would be in vain
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So handsome was my Creole girl
G D G
By the lakes of Pontchartrain

G D Em C
I asked her would she marry me
G D G
She said 'This could never be'
G D Em C
For she had got a lover
G D C
And he was far at sea
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She said that she would wait for him
G D C
And true she would remain
G D Em C
Til he returned to his Creole girl
G D G
On the lakes of Pontchartrain

G D Em C
So fare thee well my Creole girl
G D G
I never may see you more
G D Em C
But I'll never forget your kindness
G D C
In the cottage by the shore
G D Em C
And at each social gathering
G D C
A flowing glass I'll drain
G D Em C
And I'll drink a health to my Creole girl
G D G
By the lakes of Pontchartrain