Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?

(Eddie DeLange /Louis Alter – 1947)

Do you know what it means
To miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I'm not wrong
The feeling's getting stronger
The longer I stay away

Miss the moss-covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mocking birds used to sing
And I'd like to see the lazy Mississippi
A’hurrying to spring

The Mardi Gras, the memories
Of Creole tunes that filled the air
I dream of oleander in June
And soon I'm wishing that I was there

Do you know what it means
To miss New Orleans
When that's where you left your heart
And there's something more,
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans

Version to dig: Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson, Grandes Del Jazz 8