Luyện nghe bài hát Pontchartrain

O it was one morning
I bid New adieu
And took the road to Jackson
My to renew

I cursed all foreign
No could I gain
had my heart a-longing
For the lakes of

I aboard a railroad car
Beneath the sun
And I the rails 'til eventide
'Til I lay me down

No would befriend me
'Til a girl toward me came
And I fell in with a Creole girl
On the of Pontchartrain

I said, my Creole lass
My money no good
And if it for the alligators
I'd sleep in the wood

welcome here kind stranger
Our house is very
But we never a stranger out
On the of Pontchartrain

She me into her mama's house
And she treated me right
The hair upon her
In jet black ringlets

To try to her beauty
would surely be in vain
So handsome was my lass
On the lakes of

I her if she'd marry me
She said ne'er could be
For she had a
Who was far at sea

She said that she wait for him
And true she would
he returned to his Creole lass
On the of Pontchartrain

So fare thee well, my Creole
I'll see you no more
And I'll ne'er your kindness
In the cottage by the

And at social gathering
A flowing bowl drain
I'll a glass to my Creole lass
On the lakes of
raise a glass to my bonnie lass
On the lakes of