Oh, Louisiana, I stayed away from you too long   Oh, Louisiana, how can a true love go so wrong ?   She put me in shame and in sorrow and I come home tomorrow   Oh, Louisiana      Oh, Louisiana, yea, yea, Creole baby, Cajun queens   Quaint porches and windows, filet de gumbo, the Basin beans   Your beautiful Delta and bayous in greens   Oh, Louisiana      Oh, Louisiana, yea-e-e, yea, I'm flyin' on Delta Nine-o-three   Right over St. Louis, high over Memphis, Tennessee   On southward to the sea, where I long to be   Oh, Louisiana      Oh, o, Louisiana, yea, yea, them Yankee nights are cold and long   Oh, Louisiana, she broke my heart and wrecked my home   She shamed me in sorrow, to face my tomorrow   Oh, take me back, oh, Louisiana