Missing New Orleans

When Harry Connick, Jr. & Wynton Marsalis performed this last night during the relief concert, I cried. You could stand in the middle of the French Quarter right now and be missing the city. I look forward to a time when everything is as it was again.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans,
And miss it each night and day?
I know I’m not wrong, this feeling’s getting stronger
The longer I stay away
Miss them moss-covered vines, the tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds used to sing
And I’d like to see that lazy Mississippi
Hurrying into spring
The moonlight on the bayou, a creole tune that fills the air
I dream about magnolias in bloom, and I’m wishing I was there
Do you know what it 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
The moonlight on the bayou, a creole tune that fills the air
I dream about magnolias in bloom, and I’m wishing I was there
Do you know what it 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
- Louis Armstrong