Keith Toby New Orleans Lyrics

New Orleans Lyrics

(Mark D. Sanders/Bob Dipiero/Steve Seskin)

 

 He was twenty-five, she was twenty-eight

 He was home grown country, she'd just pulled off the interstate

 She bought a Dr. Pepper, ten dollars worth of gas

 She was ovbiously lost but too afraid to ask directions

 So he offered her a smile and a stick of Beech Nut gum

 He said where you headed to girl, where are you coming from

 She said

 

 New Orleans but that's another story

 New Orleans that's another time

 That's another town, that's another life

 

 First she stayed a day then she stayed a week

 Couple of months later they were living on his parent's street

 He worked the station and she worked the store

 And then they had a baby and

 Then they had one more little Jesse

 

 When she dropped the kids off at the mother's day out

 All the ladies had their questions

 But they knew not to ask about

 

 New Orleans but that's another story

 New Orleans that's another time

 That's another town, that's another life

 

 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

 

 New Orleans but that's another story

 New Orleans that's another time

 That's another town, that's another life

 

 That's another town, that's another life