"Take The Time Machine To New Orleans"
I've only been to New Orleans once for three or four days.
I had the flu the whole time,
and never left the bed in our motor home.
I said this to Misty:
"So this is Dew Orleads."
Even so I seem to write a lot of songs about it.
I think it's the mystique...
the idea of The Big Easy.
And I like the music.
I hope that place of dreams rises again,
even if I never get to go.
I just want to know New Orleans is there.
Maybe I'd go right now...
if I only had a time machine.
Here's a song...
TIME MACHINE.
If I had a Time Machine
I'd fill the tank with gasoline
And then I'd crank it up and set the dial for yesterday
Bells would ring and lights would light:
Red, and green and pink and white
And my machine and I would fly away
If I had a Time Machine
To take me back to New Orleans
We could play those old love scenes again.
I wish I may, I wish I might
Spend no more lonely days and nights
Everything would be alright
If I had a Time Machine.
And, if the day should come again
You'd leave me without a friend
That's not as bad as it may seem
I’d head on out to my garage
Move my '57 Dodge
And brush the cobwebs off my Time Machine
If I had a Time Machine
To take me back to New Orleans
We could play those old love scenes again.
I wish I may, I wish I might
Spend no more lonely days and nights
Everything would be alright
If I had a Time Machine.
Copyright © Sept. 27, 2005 by Jack Blanchard. All rights reserved.
