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Artist/Band: Randy Newman
Lyrics for Song: New Orleans Wins The War
Lyrics for Album: Other Songs - Randy Newman



Don't remember much about my baby days,

But I've been told

We used to live on Willow in the Garden District

Next to the sugar bowl



Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon

One side for white and one side for colored

I remember the trash cans floatin' down Canal Street

It rained every day one summer



Momma used to take me to Audubon Park

Show me the ways of the world

She said, "here comes a white boy, there goes a black one,

that one's an octaroon

This little cookie here's a macaroon, that big round

thing's a red balloon

And the paper down here's called the picayune

And here's a New Orleans tune"



In 1948 my Daddy came to the city

Told the people they'd won the war

Maybe they'd heard about it, maybe not

Probably they'd heard about it and just forgot

'Cause they built him a platform in Jackson Square

And the people came to hear him from everywhere

They started to party and partied some more

'Cause New Orleans had won the war

(We knew we'd do it, we done whip those yankees)



Daddy said, "I'm gonna get this boy out of this place

Bound to sap his strength

People have fun here, and I think that they should

But nobody from here ever come to no good

They're gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he's saved

Then throw fireworks all 'round his grave"

So he took us to the airport and flew us back to L.A.

That was the end of my baby days



Blue blue morning, blue blue day

All your bad dreams drift away

It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day

Lose those bad dreams

Those gray clouds above you,

what you want them around with you for?

You got someone to love you

Who could ask for more?

It's a blue blue morning, of a blue blue day

All your bad dreams drift away


Album Lyrics: Other Songs - Randy Newman


Randy Newman
"Other Songs - Randy Newman"


2. A Few Words
3. A Fool In Love
4. Back In Time
5. Bad Buzz
6. Bad News From Home
8. Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad
9. Better Off Dead
10. Big Hat, No Cattle
11. Blue Shadows On The Trail
12. Change Your Way
13. Christmas In Capetown
17. Come To Papa
18. Cowboy
19. Cowboy!
20. Davy The Fat Boy
22. Dayton, Ohio - 1903
24. Dixe Flyer
25. Doctor, Doctor
27. Eating The Peach
29. Every Time It Rains
30. Family
31. Faust (Act 2)
32. Follow The Flag
33. Four Eyes
34. Garbage?
35. Ghosts
36. Go See Lotso
37. God's Song
38. Going Home
40. Gone Dead Train
41. Good Morning
42. Great Nations Of Europe
43. Half A Man
44. Heaven Is My Home
45. I Love La
46. I Think He's Hiding
47. I Want Everyone To Like Me
48. I Will Go Sailing No More
49. I'll Be Home
50. I'm Different
51. If We Didn't Have Jesus
54. It's A Jungle Out There
55. It's Money That Matters
57. Just Look At Me (World Wrestling Entertainment Version)
58. Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier)
60. Laughing Boy
62. Let It Shine
66. Masterman And Baby J
67. Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong
68. Mikey's
69. Monsters, Inc.
70. Mr. Sheep
71. My Country
72. My Daddy Knew Dixie Howell
73. My Little Buttercup
74. My Name Is James
75. New Orleans Wins The War
76. Old Man On The Farm
78. Pants
79. Poor Me
80. Pretty Boy
82. Red Bandana
85. Roll With The Punches
86. Shining
87. Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America
88. So Long
89. So Long Dad
90. Something Special
91. Song For The Dead
92. Spanish Buzz
93. Spies
94. Strange Things
95. Sunnyside
97. Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father
98. That'll Do, Babe
99. The Ballad Of The Three Amigos
100. The Beehive State
101. The Claw
102. The Girls In My Life (Part 1)
103. The Joke
105. The One You Love
106. The Story Of A Rock & Roll Band
107. The Time Of Your Life A Bug's Life
108. There's A Party At My House
109. They Just Got Married
110. Tickle Me
111. To The Dump
112. We Belong Together
113. What About Daisy?
115. When I'm Gone
116. William Brown
117. Woody Bails
118. Woody's Roundup
119. You Can't Fool The Fat Man
120. You Got Lucky
121. Zu-Zu (Ken's Theme)
122. Garbage
123. I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It Yet)
124. What About Daisy