Louisiana Lowdown

Well my eyelids said four-thirty

And the radio clock said six

And I was thinking up a reasonable excuse

I might have slept til yesterday

But in the shape I'm in

What's twenty-four hours more or less to lose

I've burned up letters and I've burned up souvenirs

And left no traces Lord that I was ever here

And I won't be Louisiana lowdown and blue

I saw a stranger smiling at me yesterday

And it scared me almost half to death

I wanted to hide I wanted to run away from her

Instead I closed my eyes and she wasn't there