Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

46. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
Eddie DeLange & Louis Alter
rec date type # discography tk rec time
 1946 LR  34 Perfect Complete Collection v.2  5 2’13”

(piano only version)

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
I miss it each night and day
I know I’m not wrong
The feelings getting stronger
The longer I stay away

Miss the moss covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds use to sing
And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi
A hurry in to spring

The mardi grass memories
Of Creole tunes that fill the air
I dream of oleanders in June
And soon I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is 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

 

2nd version

rec date type # discography tk rec time
 1946 LR  35 Perfect Complete Collection v.2  6 1’44”

(Louis Armstrong Band version)

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
I miss it each night and day
I know I’m not wrong
The feelings getting stronger
The longer I stay away

Miss the moss covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds use to sing
And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi
A hurry in to spring

The mardi grass memories
Of Creole tunes that fill the air
I dream of oleanders in June
And soon I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is 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

 

rec date type # discography tk rec time
 1947 LR  41 Perfect Complete Collection v.2  5 2’13”

(Louis Armstrong singing)

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
I miss it most night and day
I know I’m not wrong
The feelings getting stronger
The more I stay away

Miss the moss colored vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds seem to sing
And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi
A hurry in to spring

Oh, the mardi grass the memories
Of Creole tunes that fill the air
I dream the oleanders in spring
That’s when I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans
When that’s where you left your heart
And there’s one thing more
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans

(Billie Holiday singing)

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
I miss it each night and day
I know I’m not wrong
The feelings getting stronger
The longer I stay away

Miss the moss covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds use to sing
And I’d like to see the lazy Mississippi
A hurry in to spring

The mardi grass memories
Of Creole tunes that fill the air
I dream of oleanders in June
And still I’m wishing that I was there

Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans
I miss it each night and day
And there’s something more
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans

Notes

 

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