DORRAINE OF PONCHARTRAIN
J. Cash
Recorded 2/15/60
Album: Ride This Train

Key: Bb / Capo: 1st / Play: A

VERSE:
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As I walked by the lake one day
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By chance my Dorraine pasted my way
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Then she and I walked hand in hand 
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On the banks of Ponchartrain
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I pinned a flower on her heart
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I swore we'd never be apart
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She vowed her love forever
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And as I kissed her did the same

CHORUS:
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Dorraine my Dorraine
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My dark haired little angel 
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My bell of Ponchartrain

VERSE:
We sat down on the dock
And with our hearts and fingers locked
We laughed and talked and joked about
When our names are the same
And joking I said honey
Are you marrying me for money
And it took just one quick look to tell
It hurt my dear Dorraine

VERSE:
She jumped and stood above me
And she cried why you don't love me
I'm rowing home accross the lake
You won't see me again
I called and called some more
But she rowed fast from the shore
And the clouds brought by a wind 
Began to rain on Ponchartrain

CHORUS:
Dorraine I called Dorraine
Come back me little angel
My bell of Ponchartrain

VERSE:
The storm should make her learn
That she should make a swift return
But as the rain fell harder
I lost sight of my Dorraine
As panic gripped my heart
I drew the ores and made my start
To look for her on ragging waters
And the rain on Ponchartrain

VERSE:
At darkness I still call
But no one heard my cries at all
And when the daybreak came then others
Helped me look for my Dorraine
But there was not a thing afloat
Except the ores from her rowboat
For all was lost upon the choppy waves
And rain on Ponchartrain

VERSE:
Now I come day after day
To where my sweetheart rowed away
And I gaze across the water
Of the raining Ponchartrain
Just one thing and nothing more
Ever floated back to shore
Was this flower I hold it is the one
I pinned on my Dorraine

CHORUS:
Dorraine my Dorraine
My dark haired little angel 
My bell of Ponchartrain