Chords for Planxty - The Lakes of Pontchartrain

[B] _ It was one fine March _ _ morning, I _ _ benewited _ _ you, _
And I took the road [G#m] to Jackson [F#] town, [G#m] Me [B] fortune to [E] renew.
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I cursed all for [G#m] a _ [F#] money, No [G#m] _ [B] credit could [E] I _ gain,
_ [B] Which filled me heart with longing for The legs of our children.
_ I _ _ _ stamped on board of a railroad car _ _ Beneath the _ morning sun.
_ _ I roamed the rams [G#m] till _ [F#] evening, _ [G#m] And I laid [B] me down _ [E] again.
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strangers there, [G#m] no friends [F#] to me, [G#m] Till a dark [B] girl towards [E] me came.
_ _ [B] And I fell in [C#m] love [B] with the Creole girl By the legs of ponchy train.
I _ _ _ sent [E] me _ [C#m] pretty _ [B]
Creole girl Me [F#] money [B] _ years ago. _ _
_ _ If it weren't for the _ _ [G#m] _ _ _
[F#] alligators, [G#] I'd sleep [B] out in [E] the _ woods.
_ [C#] You're _ [B]
welcome here, [G#m] kind _ [F#] stranger, _ [G#m] Our house [B] is very [E] plain. _
_ _ [B] But we never [E] [B] turned [C#] the _ [B] stranger out On the [F#] banks of [B] _ ponchy train. _ _
She _ _ took me [C#m] into [B] her _ mammy's house, And treated me right well.
_ _ The hair upon [F#] [G#m] her _ [F#] shoulders, _ [G#m] In gent [B] black _ [E] ringlets fell. _
_ _ To [C#] try [B]
to paint [G#m] her _ _
[F#] beauty, [G#m] I'm sure [B] it wouldn't be [E] in vain.
_ _ [B] So _ [Em] handsome [B] was my _ Creole girl On the [F#] banks [B] of ponchy train. _
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I _ _ _ _ asked her if she'd [F#]
marry [B] me, She said [F#] [B] that never could be.
_ _ For she had gone [G#m] to _ _
[F#] Longford, [G#] And he [F#] was [B] far [E] up sea. _
_ She [B] said that she would [G#m] wait [F#] for him, [G#] And true, [F#] she wouldn't [E] _ remain. _
_ [B] Till _ he'd return [C#m] to [F#] his [B] Creole girl On the [F#] legs of [B] _ ponchy train. _ _
_ _ It's fairly _ well, me bonnie young girl, I [C#] never [B] may see you more. _
_ _ I'll never forget [G#m] your _ _
[F#] kindness [G#m] In the [D#m] [B] cottage by the [E] _ shore.
_ _ [B] And at each _ [G#m] social _ [F#] _
gambering, [G#m] I'll [B] flow in the lounge till [E] the rain. _
_ _ [B] And I'll wave good health to the [F#] Creole [B] girl On the legs of _ ponchy train. _
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