G  C
C   C7   F
G7    G    F    G
G  C
C   C7   F
C    G    C  G  C  G

[Verse]
C         G          C
Call it a journey of memories
                            F
A journey to bring back the time
        G7                  G
Through those days of wild abandon
       F                    G
When a young man was in his prime

[Verse]
C         G        C
Call it a hopeless fantasy
                                 F
Trying to capture some long lost dreams
                                C
When you fell for the dark eyed Creole girl
    G               C      G   C   G
Who came from New Orleans

[Verse]
C           G     C
Take in the Latin Quarter
                          F
The search for a familiar name
    G7                          G
But Paris has changed since you left her
    F                      G
And nothing much looks the same

[Verse]
C         G          C
Fifi's café is now a strip club
                         F
With the Arabian Dancing Queens
                                 C
But not one can compare with the Creole girl
    G               C      G   C   G
Who came from New Orleans

[Verse]
   C           G           C
Perhaps it was too much to wish for
                            F
Sometimes it's best to move on
    G7                   G
But just for the sake of memories
            F                       G
I'll take a drink for the days long gone

[Verse]
      C             G    C
And I went into the Café Chanson
                                           F
And watched the world from tobacco stained screens
                               C
And I thought of the dark eyed Creole girl
    G               C
Who came from New Orleans

[Instrumental]
G  C
C   C7   F
G7    G    F    G

[Verse]
 C          G                C
"Bonsoir monsieur", said the waitress
                        F
"And what can I get for you?"
         G7                        G
I said, "Excuse me for asking this question
          F                    G
But you remind me of someone I knew"

[Verse]
    C          G        C
She laughed as if I was crazy
                                F
This young girl just out of her teens
                                  C
But she looked like the dark eyed Creole girl
    G               C      G   C   G
Who came from New Orleans

[Verse]
C                 G       C
I stayed 'til the bar had emptied
                          F
And we shared a bottle of wine
             G7                       G
I said, "I'm just trying to capture a memory
   F                   G
Of love in a different time"

[Verse]
           C         G           C
She said, "Maybe you think of my mother
                         F
We look so much alike it seems
                               C
She was known as the dark eyed Creole girl
    G               C
Who came from New Orleans"

[Outro]
C  F    C    G    C
      F                   C
How I loved the dark eyed Creole girl
    G               C
Who came from New Orleans