Down In New Orleans

Down In New Orleans - Anika Noni Rose

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In the Southland, there's a city, way down on the river. where the women are very pretty and all the men deliver.

They got music it's always playing, start in the day time, go on till the night, and when you hear that music playing hear what I'm saying make you feel alright. Grab somebody come on down, bring a paint brush, we're painting the town. There's some sweetness going around, Catch you down in New Orleans.

We got magic, good and bad make you happy, make you real sad get everything you won't lose what you have down here in New Orleans. hey, partner don't be shy come on down give us a try. you wanna do some living before you die, do it down in New Orleans.

? homes and mansions of the sugar parents and cotton kings. rich people, poor people all got dreams. dreams do come true in you believe.