Nora Lee

Love song to a city

 

 

I fell in love when I was eighteen

I fell in love with a southern lady

I fell in love with Nora Lee

Nora Lee

Nora Lee

Like a slow bayou breeze

Dancing and liquor and loving

 

Days passed for hours

Weeks for years

Memories faded

Nora remained

Boudin for breakfast

Po boys for lunch

Seafood for supper

Gumbo and jazz

Walks on the levy

Slow moving freight

Hustlers hookers

Nicks without names

 

Nora was special

Nora was strange

Spot of eccentric

Beauty less brains

Panhandled corners

Tourists enslaved

Slow boiled muscles

Drunks in disorder

Drums in the distance

Colors in line

Marching madness

Flying doubloons

 

REFRAIN

 

Spring flows to summer

Jazz fest to sol

Life’s expectations

Plight thee my troth

Nora grew lazy

I lost my zeal

Gamblers gamble

Rivers roll on

 

 

Priests pray redemption

Witches brew luck

Nora Lee left me

Better or not

 

When Kat blew in

Pushing a storm

Chaos and danger

Nowhere to run

Beyond all disaster

Death rides a wave

Swamp smells sulphur

Self void of worth

Nora lay dying

Drowning for help

No one responding

Alone on this earth

 

REFRAIN

 

No words can describe

The smell

No words can explain

The hell

No words can convince

The world

No words means no words

 

 

I fell in love when I was eighteen

I fell in love with a southern lady

I fell in love with Nora Lee

Nora Lee

Nora Lee

Like a slow summer breeze

I can still feel her breath on the songs that I sing