MIDNIGHT A THOUSAND MILES AWAY

Do you know what it means
missing a girl from New Orleans
Sadness comes to stay
midnight a thousand miles away

I boarded a bus north today
going north with no delay
My baby lives in the Bayou
like the Cajun all do

Do you know what it means
missing a girl from New Orleans
sadness comes to stay
midnight a thousand miles away

My heart's broke and sad
thinking of what we had
love beneath a Cajun moon
and in satin sheets til noon

Do you know what it means
missing a girl from New Orleans
sadness comes to stay
midnight a thousand miles away

One day my Cajun baby
you will come north with me
on a bus to Chicago
north we will go

Do you know what it means
missing a girl from New Orleans
sadness comes to stay
midnight a thousand miles away