DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS
(Louis Alter / Eddie DeLange)

Louis Armstrong - 1947
Billie Holiday - 1947
Eddie Condon - 1951
Fats Domino - 1958
Jonah Jones - 1958
Pete Fountain - 1959
Ricky Nelson - 1960
Al Hirt - 1962
Dardanelle - 1985
Alliance Hall Dixieland Band - 1988
Harry Connick Jr. - 1988
Alison Krauss - 1989
Yoshio Toyama & Don Sutton - 1994
Martin Taylor & Chet Atkins - 1995
Tara Darnell - 1996
Janet Carroll - 2000
Manhattan Transfer - 2000
Suede - 2001
Victoria Williams - 2002
Also recorded by: Nat King Cole; Rosemary Clooney; 
Four Vagabonds; Frankie Laine; Lee Wiley. 
 

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans
And miss it each night and day
I know I'm not wrong, the feeling's getting stronger 
The longer I stay away

Miss the moss-covered vines, tall sugar pines
Where mockingbirds used to sing
I'd love to see that old 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 wishin 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







(Contributed by Mel - June 2004)