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lake Pontchartrain
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Volunteer Zeke
2007-08-04 19:25:08 UTC
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Course Ole Hank sang about it
but Fred Rose made him
George Strait wud swim it fer love

any more songs about it
d***@webtv.net
2007-08-04 22:17:54 UTC
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Dunno what Hank sang about it, but it'd be hard to beat George Jones'
version of "On The Banks .....". -- Dick
Volunteer Zeke
2007-08-05 02:08:23 UTC
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Re: lake Pontchartrain

Group: alt.music.country.classic Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2007, 3:17pm (EDT-3)
From: ***@webtv.net
Dunno what Hank sang about it, but it'd be hard to beat George Jones'
version of "On The Banks .....". -- Dick

THATS ANOTHER SONG POSSUM COVERED OF HANKS

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Blue
2007-08-05 03:52:04 UTC
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Post by Volunteer Zeke
Course Ole Hank sang about it
but Fred Rose made him
George Strait wud swim it fer love
any more songs about it
Johnny Cash sang about Lake Pontchartrain (sic) in his 'Ride This
Train" lp that came out around 1960, my favorite album of his, the
way he told about early America was great.
Volunteer Zeke
2007-08-05 14:51:07 UTC
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noticed Dorraine of Pontchartrain was
on that album released in 1960--thks


LYRICS HOME =BB J =BB JOHNNY CASH =BB RIDE THIS TRAIN (PART 4)

Ride this train to Bogaloosa Louisiana see these swamps and forest
Man's never set foot in a lot of it
You'll find aligator mink coon possum squirrel otter and the lakes're
full of fish
You'll find places so virgin and fresh
That you'd think the Lord just created it yesterday
As a matter of fact some people say when this world was made
A whole lot of it just must have looked like southern Louisiana does now
In 1788 I left Halifax Nova Scotia with about two hundred other Acadians
We made a long tiring journey south
In our party of two hundred there was this beautiful girl
That I just haven't quite been able to forget
Dorraine was her name and Dorraine and I were
Well we were kinda pledged to each other
And then we said when we got to the promised land
We'd build us a house and someday we'd have
The biggest sugar-cane plantation in the country
And I used to make Dorraine blush
When I'd tell her we'd raise the biggest family in the country too
Ad absurdum per aspera
2007-08-08 19:14:06 UTC
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Post by Volunteer Zeke
any more songs about it
Not really *about* it, but passing mentions in "Crescent
City" (Lucinda Williams) and "Hurricane" (big hit for Leon Everette,
if memory serves, in the early 80s) come to mind...

--Joe
d***@webtv.net
2007-08-08 23:22:46 UTC
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Hank Snow didn't mention it in "I've Been Everywhere", so I guess it
doesn't really exist! <g> -- Dick

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