***CAP0 3*** 
  
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I'm going back where my garden blooms all year 
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Where the winter time speaks softly in the falling rain 
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I'm going back to my green-eyed lover there 
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We will dance along the banks of old Lake Ponchartrain 


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Take me to the station  
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I am late to catch my south-bound train  
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Oh I'm gonna call my cousin Libby  
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She will be waitin' by the tracks when I roll in  
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(And) I'm gonna roll across America   
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Just to stand beside my Ponchartrain again  
  

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Oh' I've grown pale beneath the streets of Montreal 
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Where the voices ring like bells in French-Canadian 
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And the rivers stand imprisoned till the thaws 
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I am alone at night and dream of my own Pontchartrain 
 

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These old rails shake like thunder through the night 
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Soon I'll have my green-eyed lover's arms to comfort me 
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Oh, I can see my cousin Libby by his side 
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Her hair will flow in waves like on Lake Pontchartrain 
 

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I'm going back where my garden blooms all year 
          A5                G5            F5 
Where the wintertime speaks softly in the fallin' rain 
                     Bb5               F5 
I'm goin' back to my green-eyed lover there 
       A5               Bb5               F5 
And we will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain 
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Yes we will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain 
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We will dance along the banks of old Lake Pontchartrain 
F5 
And here comes the train