(Slow)
Bless your feet
They'll take you places

When your thumb
Runs outta gas
Cross your heart

And pray to Jesus
That your broken back
Might last

In this damn
Forsaken parish
Where you just might

Rot away
New Orleans sun
Is shinin' down

Louisiana Way.

(Fast)

Bless your feet
They'll take you places
When your thumb

Runs outta gas
Cross your heart
And pray to Jesus

That your broken back
Might last
In this damn

Forsaken parish
Where you just might
Rot away

New Orleans sun
Is shinin' down
Louisiana Way.


Louisiana
Louisiana Way

Let me go
I beg you
I swear that

I can't stay
Louisiana
Louisiana Way

Let me go
I beg you
Louisiana Way.


And seven months
In prison

Are a lot for you
To pay
When your ma thinks

You're her hero
And you must stand up
And say

That you're not a thief
You're hungry
And you hope to God

Some day
You will take her
From that shanty

To a home on
Vermillion Bay
Which you bought with

All your money
You'll be proud and
You can say

New Orleans sun is
Shinin' down
Louisiana Way.


Louisiana
Louisiana Way

Let me go
I beg you
I swear that

I can't stay
Louisiana
Louisiana Way
Let me go
I beg you

Louisiana Way.

Louisiana
Louisiana Way
Let me go

I beg you
I swear that
I can't stay
Louisiana
Louisiana Way

Let me go
I beg you
Louisiana Way.