Hello New Orleans - Robert Earl Keen

Standin' here beside this freeway wishing I was high

Wondering why she said she loved me then she said goodbye

I’m down to my last dollar in these faded old blue jeans

So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

Her hair was made of summer sunlight the moon lit in her eyes

Her voice would ride the wind at midnight across the starry skies

Love is blind that’s what they tell me in all those magazines

So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

We talked about our lives together we talked about our plans

We walked through rain and windy weather across the shifting sands

She took the car that’s how I know this ain’t no crazy dream

So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

I’ll eat my fill of jambalaya and crawfish etouffe

I’ll drink the Mississippi dry, laissez les bon temps rouler

I’ll trade her memory in on one of those Cajun queens

So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans

So adios to Amarillo, hello New Orleans