Song lyrics to Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans (1947) by Louis Alter and Edgar De Lange, Played by Louis Armstrong and His Band and sung by Billie Holiday in the movie New Orleans
Do you know what is 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.
I miss the moist covered vines
The tall sugar pines
Where mocking birds used to sing
And I like to see the lazy Mississippi
A’ hurrying to spring.
The Mardi Gras memories
Of creole tunes that fill the air
I dream of oleanders in June
And soon I’m wishing that I was there
Do you know what is means to miss New Orleans
And there is something more
I miss the one I care for
More than I miss New Orleans
