Key: C major
Verse 1
on the day she arrived
Her suitcase was battered,
her clothes a little tattered
And word soon got round
to the boys in town
When she stepped on the stage
from Chauvin to Mamou
in South Louisiana
She took the best room
at the Empire Hotel
And she'd lay there for hours
among mountains of flowers
And when evening came down
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She'd parade through the town
Just a smile and a wave
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It's no wonder we called her the Queen
From Mahmoud to Thibodeau
on the old Mississippi
Till they gleamed like the
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jewels in her crown
Well it didn't take long to see
something was wrong
She'd wrecked all lives
of the sweethearts and wives
She checked in her keys
and she left us the beads
On the day she left town
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And the town simply went back to sleep
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She was Queen of the Bayou
From Chauvin to Mamou
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Every town has a story to tell
in South Louisiana
Mahmood's a typical,
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she captured each parish and town
on the old Mississippi
Till they gleamed
on the old Mississippi
Till they gleamed
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like the jewels in her crown
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TunerE A D G B E
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