do you know what it means to miss new orleans and miss it each night and day well i know i m not wrong the feeling s gettin stronger the longer i stay away miss those moss covered vines the tall sugar pines where mockin birds used to sing and i d love to see that old lazy mississippi are hurryin about into spring fill the air i dream about magnolias in bloom and soon i am wishin i was there now do you know what it means to miss new orleans for that s where i left my heart and there s one one thing more i miss the one i care for more than i miss new orleans and that s you