Louisiana Sky

Written by: Ray Davies

Published by: DavRay Music Ltd./Sony ATV Music Publishing

Lyrics:

Last night I dreamed a song
It was a haunting lullaby
Sent down from the heavens
Through that Louisiana sky

Then as night turned into day
All the hate and anger seemed to just drift away
I thought there must be something up above,
To send a guiding light
Down here from the heavens
Through that Louisiana sky

(Spoken)
The sounds of the freight trains were the first thing to strike me,
as though the trains were accompanying me on this journey.
The songs were coming, but it was the haunted quality of
the place itself that affected me most.
It was a friendly place but there were a lot of lost souls down here,
and perhaps I was just another one of them.
Who was I? And where was I going?
I bought a big chief notepad at Win Dixie and I took a streetcar
named desire.
But where was it taking me?
Perhaps to those haunted places.

This song can be found on the following releases:

stereo mix, with The Jayhawks (2:20), recorded 2016-2018 at Konk Studios, North London

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