[Dixielandjazz] Lyrics to Good Morning New Orleans

[Bruce Stangeland]

Hello,

While searching on Google for "Good Morning New Orleans" + Lyrics, I 
found the following on
http://www.myneworleans.com/New-Orleans-Magazine/May-2009/All-aboard/ :

I hope this is what you were seeking,
Bruce Stangeland
Berkeley banjoist

....
"Every now and then a song comes along that captures a cosmic essence of 
this grand, betrayed, beaten-down and timeless town, too long mocked by 
that idiotic bumper sticker “New Orleans: Proud to Call it Home.” If you 
own that one peel it off your car. The town was a political wreck before 
Hurricane Katrina and is now a basket case of democracy under the 
preening narcissist we still call mayor. So. Let us turn from the data 
of our third-world governance to the topic at hand, Kermit Ruffins’ new 
CD, Livin’ a Tremé Life, and more specifically, the sterling fourth cut, 
“Good Morning, New Orleans” – with the final word pronounced à la 
Satchmo: Or-leens.

In a sunny tone, Ruffins’ trumpet lays out a lazy winding melody to 
David Torkanowsky’s supple piano work splashing along George Porter’s 
poetics on bass and Herlin Riley’s drumming in perfect balance. Then 
Ruffins uncorks his lyrics in a gravelly tone, “Good mornin’, New 
Or-leens” to which a sweet woman chorus chimes the line right back in 
medium tempo as if giving it good to her man, “Good morn-ing, New 
Or-leens” – we’re talking Patrice Hardin and Betty Winn on vocals, and 
Vernon Ward in minor key. Congratulations, you three!

We love you New Orleens; we love you New-Orleens
It’s such a lovely day, to love New Or-leens,
when people come
they never leave because we’re swinging that way.
The sunshine’s so so bright
The sunshine’s so-so bright
The breeze is so so nice
The breeze is so so nice
The starlights twinkle at night
by the riverside so
by and by sometimes
I cry
it’s such a beautiful sight

A guy who admits to sights that make him cry is someone to heed. And 
Ruffins’ lyrics on this one move with such adroit phrasing to those 
beautiful voices flowing in at the right moments as to wash you in 
feelings of exaltation about the town. Do not kid yourself, news-numbed 
reader, we need songs like this to endure what the politics is doing to 
us. Other songs achieve a similar balm to the wounds of place. Lil 
Queenie singing “My Darlin’ New Orleans” [lyrics by Ron Cuccia]. The 
original version of “Basin Street Blues” by Spencer Williams, who grew 
up in one of the Storyville whorehouses and masked the raw stuff with 
lyrics of elegant euphemism. “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New 
Orleans” (even though it was written for a bad movie). The Dixie Cups’ 
version of “Iko Iko” – the list goes on, but is really not so long.

What makes a great song work is often secondary to the lyrics. The words 
of “What a Wonderful World” – skies of blue, red roses too – border on 
the banal, but with a voice like Louis Armstrong’s, redemption comes 
with the ease of a smile. Kermit Ruffins modeled himself after 
Armstrong. With no disrespect to the swinging barbecue man from Tremé, 
that persona of an easy-rambling good time man works fine on stage, and 
even off. But selling music on CDs, especially in hard times – and times 
were seriously hard for the recording industry before the gluttons of 
Wall Street ran out of starch – is another trick altogether. Of the 11 
songs on Livin’ a Tremé Life I’d only bother putting five on an iPod, if 
I had one.


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Hi everybody!

I?m looking for the lyrics to a seldom heard tune, Good Morning New Orleans. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.

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