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Lakes of Ponchartrain 2 
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Lakes of Ponchartrain 2 
SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer 
SOURCE'S SOURCE: Huxtable, Christensen and Hood 
TEXT:
 D A7 b D E7 A7 It was a dark and a stormy night as I lately took my way
 A7 D f# G D A7 f# A7 Through windfalls thick with devil's grubs my aching feet did stray D A7 b D E7 A7 Until at last by the ev'ning star some higher ground I gained A7 D f# G D A7 D And there I met with a Creole girl by the Lakes of Ponchartrain 
"Good evening to you, Creole girl; my money is no good Though I fear the alligators, well I must sleep in the wood." "You are welcome here, kind stranger, our house is very plain, But we never turned a stranger out on the Lakes of Ponchartrain 
She took me to her mother's house, and she treated me right well Her hair in jet-black ringlets about her shoulders fell I try to scribe her beauty, but my words are all in vain So handsome was that Creole girl by the Lakes of Ponchartrain 
I asked her if she'd marry me, but she said that never could be She was promised to a sailor who was far away at sea She said that she'd been true to him, and true she would remain Were he never to return again to the Lakes of Ponchartrain 
So farewell to you, my Creole girl, I'll never see you no more But I'll ne'er forget your kindness in the cottage by the shore And .......... .......on the wide and flowing main I'll drink a health to the Creole girl by the Lakes of Ponchartrain 
DT #649 Laws H9 recorded by Null and Shute on Feathered Maiden