Lakes Of Pontchartrain chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 5th

Change the key to C majorC or use a CAPO on fret 5 to emulate the recording on 'The Has Come Album'.

  G+G    G/F#    E minorEm D MajorD   C majorC        G+G
It was one fine March morning I bid New Orleans adieu
   G+G    G/F#  E minorEm   D MajorD    E minorEm      C majorC
And I took the road to Jackson town, my fortune to renew
 G+G     G/F#  E minorEm D MajorD    E minorEm       C majorC
I cursed all foreign mo-ney, no credit could I gain
   G+G    G/F#     E minorEm   D MajorD      C majorC        G+G
til I fell in love with the Creole girl by the lakes of Ponchartrain


  G+G    G/F#   E minorEm   D MajorD     C majorC        G+G
She took me into her Mama's house, and treated me right well
  G+G   G/F#  E minorEm  D MajorD    E minorEm         C majorC
The hair upon her shoulders in jet black ringlets fell
  G+G    G/F#   E minorEm D MajorD   E minorEm         C majorC
To try and paint her beauty, I know it would be in vain
  G+G    G/F#  E minorEm   D MajorD      C majorC        G+G
So handsome was my Creole girl by the lakes of Ponchartrain


 G+G              C majorC             G+G
I asked her if she'd marry me, She said that ne'er could be
  G+G                   C majorC
For she had got a lo-ver and he was far at sea
  G+G          C majorC    D MajorD    G+G        C majorC
She said that she would wait for him and true she would remain
   G+G                   C majorC        G+G
Till he'd return to his Creole girl on the lakes of Ponchartrain


G+G     G/F#   E minorEm   D MajorD    C majorC         G+G
Fare thee well, me Creole girl, I never will see you more
 G+G    G/F#   E minorEm D MajorD      E minorEm       C majorC
I won't forget your kindness in the cottage by the shore
  G+G    G/F#  E minorEm  D MajorD    E minorEm        C majorC
And at each social gathering, a flowing bowl I'll drain
  G+G      G/F#     E minorEm   D MajorD      C majorC        G+G