I DON'T WANT TO GO WORDS & MUSIC:   Earl P. Reinhalter INTRO: E6 - E - E6 - E E9 - A - F#m7 - E E6 - E - E6 - E E9 - A - F#m7 - E E I. there's a cloud up in the north: A the Mississippi River changing course. F#m7 E we've got to get away. E New Orleans is running dry, A flooding the Atchafalaya River. F#m7 E how can we stay? E6 E CHORUS: I don't want to go. E6 E I don't want to go. E9 A F#m7 E I don't want to go from my home. E6 E I don't want to know. E6 E I don't want to know. E9 A F#m7 E I don't want to know that it's gone. INSTRUMENTAL A: E6 - E - E6 - E E9 - A - F#m7 - E N.C. E REFRAIN: hey-oh, hey-oh \ N.C. E \ hey-oh, hey-oh > STOP TIME N.C. A F#m7 E / hey, oh - ay - oh / E6 - E hey-oh, hey-oh \ E6 - E \ hey-oh, hey-oh > CONTINUOUS E9 - A F#m7 E / hey, oh - ay - oh / E II. there's lots of little fishing boats A and a million other things that float F#m7 E in Lake Pontchartrain. E now that Bourbon Street is dry, A it's empty as the lonely weeping eye F#m7 E of a dying hurricane. but... /// REPEAT CHORUS /// /// REPEAT INSTRUMENTAL A /// INSTRUMENTAL B: E - A - F#m7 - E (like verse) E - A - F#m7 - E E III. I'm hangin' up my two-step shoes. can't go back to Big Mamou A F#m7 E since the Mississippi broke the dam. E they're fishing in Fred's parking lot. A Loretta can't keep her etouffe hot. F#m7 E gotta leave that cajun land. but... /// REPEAT CHORUS /// /// REPEAT INTRO /// INSTRUMENTAL A: E6 - E - E6 - E E9 - A - F#m7 - E (repeat) E6 - E ENDING: hey-oh, hey-oh E6 - E hey-oh, hey-oh E9 - A F#m7 E hey, oh - ay - oh E6 - E hey-oh, hey-oh E6 - E hey-oh, hey-oh E9 - A (rit.) F#m7 E hey, oh - ay - oh © Copyright 1991 Earl P. Reinhalter.   All Rights Reserved.