New Orleans(Cavaco chords)

	        
Intro: G D C D 
 
Verse 1 
G                   D 
He was twenty-five, she was twenty-eight 
       C 
He was home grown country 
           D 
She'd just pulled off the interstate 
    G                        D 
She bought a Dr. Pepper, ten dollars worth of gas 
        C                  D                   G        D   
She was obviously lost but too afraid to ask directions 
      G                         D 
So he offered her a smile and a stick of Beech Nut gum 
        C                                       D 
He said where you headed to girl, where are you coming from 
 
She said?(chorus) 
 G         D                   C     C-D (quick strums) 
New Orleans but that's another story 
 G         D               C 
New Orleans that's another time 
               D                    G     C     D 
That's another town, that's another life
 
 Verse 2 
G                      D 
First she stayed a day then she stayed a week 
C  
Couple of months later 
          D 
They were living on his parent's street 
G                         D 
He worked the station and she worked the store 
    C 
And then they had a baby and 
D                  G                D 
Then they had one more little Jesse 
G                                    D 
When she dropped the kids off at the mother's day out 
        C 
All the ladies had their questions 
         D   
But knew not to ask about (Chorus) 
 
Verse 3 (same chords) 
 
Wednesday night supper at the First Baptist Church 
        
Stranger standin' in the doorway 
        
As they're passin' out the dessert 
        
He said go on and pack your bags 
           
Cause I'm here to take you home 
 
I'm goin' back to Louisiana 
 
And woman I ain't gonna go with out you 
 
There's a few defining moments in every person's life 
 
When you know what you've done wrong 
 
And you know what you've done right 
 
And before the congregation and her husband and her kids 
 
She says, 'How dare you even speak to me 
 
After everything you did'...in 
 
 
That's another town, that's another life 
 
 
 
  
 

	        

Written by Bob Dipiero, Steve Seskin, Mark Sanders