E

[Verse]
    A                                     E
Oh, Louisiana, I stayed away from you too long
    A                                    E
Oh, Louisiana, how can a true love go so wrong?
              B
She put me in shame and in sorrow and I come home tomorrow
    E
Oh, Louisiana

[Verse 2]
    A                                         E
Oh, Louisiana, yeah, yeah, Creole baby, Cajun queens
                   A                                  E
Quaint porches and windows, filet de gumbo, the Basin beans
     B
Your beautiful Delta and bayous in greens
    E
Oh, Louisiana

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[Verse 3]
    A                                                   E
Oh, Louisiana, yea-e-e, yea, I'm flying on Delta Nine-o-three
               A                               E
Right over St. Louis, high over Memphis, Tennessee
   B
On southward to the sea, where I long to be
    E
Oh, Louisiana

[Verse 4]
       A                                                    E
Oh, o, Louisiana, yea, yea, them Yankee nights are cold and long
    A                                            E
Oh, Louisiana, she broke my heart and wrecked my home
    B
She shamed me in sorrow, to face my tomorrow
                      E
Oh, take me back, oh, Louisiana