Down in the quarterpast anybody's bedtime   Anybody anywhere who was halfway out his mind   I was sittin' in a Rock and roll bar   Down from another   Just on up the line   I was talkin' with a new found friend   Who lived his life   On river time      He was holdin' my attention I could   Almost hear the sound   How he ran on the Mississippi on a tug   From the up and down   He was rollin' like the river he could have   Gone on night and day   But I caught myself in midturn and I   Never looked away and      Could it ever happen again   Time awaiting the answer then   Lost and found in the city, New Orleans      Questions in her dark eyes I felt   She already knew   The answers bringing no surprise   Like a Spanish moon   She was grown up on the music   I could only hear at home   When she spoke on of the song I sang   And how it made her feel   So much less alone   Pickin' out the pictures that the tune   Brought in to mind   How it came to me that all along the song was   Her for all time      Could it ever happen again   Time awaiting the answer then   Down in the quarter, New Orleans   Down in the quarter, New Orleans   Down in the quarter, New Orleans   Down in the quarter, New Orleans