Delta Queen

honey honey

Where you been

Delta Queen

honey

honey

Where you been.



Tell me mister have you seen

The girl they call the Delta Queen

In New Orleans

He said

I know the girl you mean

She's singing at the Delta Queen

Down seventeen.



And when I saw her there

Silver gaslight on her hair

I didn't mind the smoky room

Or the smell of stale perfume

I only know that she's

A fallen angel on her knees

A woman tired of being alone

The one that I'm now taking home.



She left her home in Baton Rouge

She only had one pair of shoes

What could she lose.

The time had come for her to chose

Between the good life and the blues

What could she lose.