New Orleans
Oak Ridge Boys

He was twenty-five she was twenty-eight
He was homegrown and she'd just pulled off the interstate
She bought a Dr. Pepper ten dollars worth of gas
She was obviously lost but too afraid to ask directions.

So he offered her a smile
And a stick of Beech-Nut gum
He said, ''Where you headed to girl,
Where you coming from?''

She said, ''New Orleans but that's another story,
New Orleans, that's another time,
That's another town, that's another life.''

First she stayed a day then she stayed a week
Couple of months later they were living on his parents street
He worked the station and she worked the store
And then they had a baby and then they had one more, little Jesse.

When she dropped the kids off at the mothers day out
All the ladies had their questions and knew not to ask about.

New Orleans but that's another story
New Orleans, that's another time,
That's another town, that's another life.

--- Instrumental ---

Wednesday night supper at the first Baptist Church
Stranger standing in the door way as they're passing out the dessert
He said, ''Go on pack your bags, I'm here to take you home
I'm going back to Louisiana and woman I ain't gonna go without you.''

There's a few defining moments in every persons life
When you know what you've done wrong and you know what you've done right
And before the congregation and her husband and her kids
She says, ''How dare you even speak to me after everything you did in.''

And New Orleans that's another story
New Orleans, that's another time,
That's another town, that's another life.

New Orleans that's another story
New Orleans, that's another time,
That's another town, that's another life...


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  A Mansion There For You   Ain't No Short Way Home   All I Want for Christmas Is You   All Of The Songs   Amazing Grace   American Beauty   American Made   An American Family   At the roll call   Back Home Again   Back To Tennessee   Bad Case Of Missing You   Barbara Sue   Beautiful You   Because He Lives   Blessed Assurance   Bobbie Sue   Callin' Baton Rouge   Callin' Baton Rouge   Christmas Carol   Christmas Is Paintin' The Town   Christmas Time's a-Coming   Coat Of Many Colors   Colors   Come On In   Cryin' Again   Cryin' Again   Day of rejoicing   Dear Jesus, abide with me   Deep in Louisiana   Dig A Little Deeper In The Well   Dream of Me   Dream On   Each Step I Take   Elvira   Emmylou   Everyday   Fancy Free   Farther along   Father, I Stretch My Hands To Thee   From Love To Love   G.I. Joe & Lillie   Getting Ready For A Baby   Glorious Impossible   God Will Take Care Of You   God's hands   Goin' Against the Grain   Gonna Take A Lot Of River (1988)   Happy Christmas Eve   He Did It All For Me   He means all the world to me   Heart of Mine   Heaven Bound   Here Comes Santa Claus   Here Comes Santa Claus   Hold To God's Unchanging Hand   How Great Thou Art   How Long Has It Been   I asked the Lord   I don't mind my journey   I Gotta Get Over This   I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Sometimes   I Guess It Never Hurts To Say Goodbye (1984)   I Know   I know my savior is there   I Know What Lies Ahead   I Love To Tell The Story   I Love You So Much It Hurts   I Saw The Light   I want to see Jesus most of all   I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head   I Wish You Could Have Turned My Head (And Left My ...   I Would Crawl All The Way (To The River)   I'd Still Be Waiting   I'll Be Home for Christmas   I'll Be True to You   I'll live in glory land   I'll wake up on the other side   I'm Settin' Fancy Free   I'll Be True To You   If All I Had Left   If We Ever Needed The Lord Before We Sure Do Need ...   In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin'   In the shelter of his arms   In The Sweet By And By   It Takes A Little Rain   It Takes a Little Rain (To Make Love Grow)   It's different now   Jesus Is Coming Soon   Jesus, the one who never fails   Jonah, Job And Moses   Joy To The World   Juliet   Just A Little Talk With Jesus   Lady I Love   Lead me to cavalry   Lead Me To That Rock   Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight   Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight (1979)   Led Out Of Bondage   Let It Ride   Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!   Life's Railway To Heaven   Little One   Little Things   Lots Of Matchbooks   Love Of God   Love Song   Make My Life with You   Mary Christmas   Mary Had a Little Lamb   Mary, Did You Know?   Mrs. Santa Claus   My heavenly father   No Matter How High   No one cared so much   O Come All Ye Faithful   Old Hearts   On The Sunny Banks   One of these mornings   Ozark Mountain Jubilee   Peace Within [feat. The Isaacs]   Perfect love   Peterbilt Sleigh   Pretty Little Baby Child   Rhythm Guitar   River Of Jordan   Sail Away   Santa Claus Is Coming To Town   Santa Claus Is Real   Santa's Song   Seven Nation Army   Silent Night   Silver Bells   So Fine   Someday   Someplace Green   Sometimes The Rain Won't Let Me Sleep   Soul And Inspiration   Standing In The Need Of Prayer   Sweet Jesus [feat. Merle Haggard]   Thank God for Kids   Thank God For Kids (1983)   Thank God, I'm reborn   That's Christmas to Me   The angels must have cried   The Baptism Of Jesse Taylor   The Boys Are Back   The Christian way   The Love Of God   The Star-Spangled Banner   The Warmest Night Of The Year   There Is Power In The Blood   These Hands Of Mine   This Crazy Love   This Little Light of Mine   Time has made a change in me   Touch a Hand, Make a Friend   Train, Train   Trying to Love Two Women   Trying To Love Two Women (1980)   Unworthy of his love   What'll I Do   When I lay my burdens down   When Love Calls You   Where The Sun Always Shines   White Christmas   Why Me   Wonderful savior   Y'all Come Back Saloon   Y'all Come Back Saloon (1977)   Y'all Come Back Saloon   You Don't Have To Go Home (But You Can't Stay Here...   You'll never walk alone   You're the One   You're The One (1978)   You're The One

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