Best songs about New Orleans

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Back that arse up

House of the Rising Sun
At the Foot of Canal Street

City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie.

Actually about a train, though it could be a metaphor.

Pretty cool, from Wiki:

"written by Steve Goodman ... describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans in bittersweet and nostalgic terms. Goodman got the idea while traveling on the Illinois Central line for a visit to his wife's family. While at the Quiet Knight bar in Chicago, Goodman saw Arlo Guthrie, and asked to be allowed to play a song for him. Guthrie grudgingly agreed, on the condition that if Goodman would buy him a beer, Guthrie would listen to him play for as long as it took to drink the beer. Goodman played "City of New Orleans," which Guthrie liked enough that he asked to record it."

As a New Orleans native who now spends most of his time in Virginia, the ONE song that makes me homesick is:

Fats Domino - Walking to New Orleans

Here's one that fewer people know about, written by a native of Lake Charles, and this version is by Emmylou... I really love it:

Crescent City

Tous les temps sans temps, that's what we say

The original by Lucinda Williams

Mr. Bojangles

Tom Waits-I Wish I was in New Orleans

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not actually about N.O. , but about a girl who danced the tables in the French Quarter

one of my favorite killer jams ... RIP Andrew

Mother Love Bone ... Chloe Dancer / Crown of Thorns