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Intro

All the happy couples on their way to New Or-leans

 Re-minding me of when we got a-long

 They're only renting time and space to fill up with their dreams

 And dreams are what they'll have when they have gone

 How could it be that I was born without a clue to carry on

 And still it is the same now I am older

 Armed with just a will and then this love for singing songs

 And minding less and less if I am colder

 But I have this funny ache and it's burning in my chest

 And it spreads just like a fire inside my body

 Is it something God left out in my spirit or my flesh

 Would I be saved if I were brave and had a baby?

 It was never clear what would come next

 but that's the risk and that's the test

 And you were the only one so far to follow

 And no one talks about when one might stop and need to rest

 Or how long you sit alone before you

 stop looking back It's like you're waiting for Godot

 And then you pick your sorry ass up off the street and

 And what the hell is this? Who made this bloody mess?

 And someone always answers like a martyr

 Is it something you should know, did you never do your best

 Would you be saved if you were brave and just tried harder

 So now I ride the aught-one-thirty-five to New Orleans

 I float a mile above life's toil and trouble

 A thousand lonely lifetimes I still wait and then go on

 A clown to entertain the happy couples