Standin' on the corner   Of Toulouse and Dauphine   Waitin' on Marie-Ondine   I'm tryin' to place a tune   Under a Louisiana moonbeam   On the planet of New Orleans      In a bar they call The Saturn   And in her eyes of green   And somethin' that she said in a dream   Inside of my suit I got my mojo root   And a true love figurine   For the planet of New Orleans      New Orleans - the other planet   With other life upon it   And everythin' that's shakin' in between   If you should ever land upon it   You better know what's on it   The planet of New Orleans      Now I'm tryin' to find my way   Through the rain and the steam   I'm lookin' straight ahead through the screen   And then I heard her say   Somethin' in the Limousine   'Bout takin' a ride across the planet of New Orleans      If she was an ace   And I was just a jack   And the cards were never seen   We could have been the king and queen   But she took me back to her courtyard   Where magnolia perfume screams   Behind the gates and the granite   Of the planet of New Orleans