Elvis Presley - New Orleans

[intro]
C  C7  F  C7  F C7 G7

[verse 1]
             C
(You'll never know) You'll never know.
             C7
(What heaven means) What heaven means.
             F7
Until you've been down to
New Orleans, (New Orleans).
    G7
You ain't been living' till you
cuddle and coo (oo).
  C
O'with the black-eyed baby by the old bayou.

[verse 2]
              C
(You've never seen) you've never seen.
            C7
(Cupid doll queens) You've never seen
those Cupid doll queens.
                  F7
Like they got them,
in New Orleans (New Orleans).
    G7
Ah, ooh, ooh, they love you like,
no-one can (ah).
   C
It makes you awful glad,
that you were born a man.

[verse 3]
                   F           F7
If-if-if you ain't been there (been there).
F7
Then you ain't been nowhere (nowhere).
    C
The living’s lazy and the
loving’s fine (it'so fine).
            G
If you feel low down (low down).
           D
So help me Hannah (Hannah).
 G
 You should lose the blues in
Loui-si-ouisi-ouisi-ana.

[verse 4]
            C
(So get the lead) Get the lead.
             C7
(Out of your jeans)
Get the lead out of your chase.

And I'd put it down,
                   F7
I'd put it down ah where?
   F7
in New Orleans (New Orleans).
  G7
a Louisiana baby tells you,
stay awhile (yeah).
F7                 D7
Live it up (yeah), love it up (yeah),
G7        C
southern style.

[outro]
            D7                G
Way down in New, (down in New)..
      C       C7
New Orleans...
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