N’Awlin Nights

N'awlin's nights

Gonna land at sunset in New Orleans
Gonna hire me a long black limousine

Tonight I'm a southern boy born and bred
Polite at the table and I'm rude in bed
Louisiana moon and a paddle boat ride
Gonna slide the big easy feel
The rise of the tide

Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Drop me down into that sweet swamp smell
It's a home game here for
Both heaven and hell
Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Gonna scream at the sky on Huey Long bridge
Salt lick lay that sauce on thick
Double mint julep and a medicine stick

Dip my lips in a velvet mist
Bake my head like I've never been kissed
Fiddle in the streets with a Kershaw sway
Dr John growls from the alleyway

Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Drop me down into that sweet swamp smell
It's a home game here for
Both heaven and hell
Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Gonna scream at the sky on Huey Long bridge

It's the velvet madness in this
Place that I love
When the moonlight comes it's the magic
That takes me and I'm ready to run

Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Drop me down into that sweet swamp smell
It's a home game here for
Both heaven and hell
Big silver bird with the wing tip lights
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
Gonna scream at the sky
There's a skin buffet up on billy goat hill

Carry me to those N'awlin's nights
Carry me carry me
Carry me back to those N'awlin's nights
To those N'awlin's nights