The Lakes of Pontchartrain
- The Lakes of Pontchartrain
"The Lakes of Pontchartrain" is an American Civil War song. It shares similar chords and tuning with the Beatles hit Blackbird. All known recordings of the song title "Lakes" as plural, but geographically there is only "one" Lake of Pontchartrain north of New Orleans. (Lake Pontchartrain, however, connects to two other lakes - Lake Borgne to the East and Lake Maurepas to the West -, which may explain the plural.) The song was recorded on the 1978 album called Welcome Here Kind Stranger by Paul Brady.
According to "Ready for the Storm", the album by Déanta, this is a "traditional Creole love song, which is of Irish origin."
It is recorded also on the Planxty album, Cold Blow and the Rainy Night. (Shanachie 79011, 1989) The information from that album states that the tune was probably brought back by soldiers fighting for the British or French armies in Louisiana and Canada in the War of 1812.
The alternate verse is from the Digital Tradition Folk Song Search.
Bob Dylan performed the song frequently in 1988-1989 [http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/atlas/pontchartrain.html] . The Be Good Tanyas recorded a version on their album "Blue Horse". It is also recorded by the Chieftains (with Mark Knopfler) on their album "The Long Black Veil".
The band Tangerine Dream recorded a version of the song for their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.
External links
* [http://home.att.net/~dmercado/audio/pontchar.mid Example version of "The Lakes of Pontchartrain"] (MIDI)
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