C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C [Verse 1] C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C On a front stoop in my house.......Watching folks go by C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Lazy days chewing on ice.......I'm just waiting on July C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And O Z plays Irma Thomas.....And we all know what it means C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Rag a tag of rain, city so slow.....It's summertime in New Orleans [Verse 2] C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And all my friends are getting drunk on Sunday.....You know they just trying to keep cool C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C I'm hanging out with these fools playing card games.....And my new best friend who's got a pool C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And O Z plays James Andrews.....Yeah we all know who that is C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Rag a tag of rain, city so slow.....It's summertime in New Orleans [Verse 3] C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Drinking gallons of daiquiris, eating snowball in the cone.....Slow drive by the lake C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And I'm doing 35 through all the school zones.....My brand new AC unit just broke C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And O Z plays Kermit Ruffins.....You know he's barbecuing up at Vaughan's C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Rag a tag of rain, smoking a J.....It's summertime in New Orleans C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C The garbage truck just passed you up.....With that potent smell of seafood shells C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Sweet bloom magnolia trees.....Yeah that's summertime in New Orleans [Bridge Freeform Okay] C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C [Verse 4] C G7 Am Em7 Yeah I'm taking a buggy ride with my wife through the Quarter F G7 C We're drinking hurricanes listening to Tuba Fats C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Little kids keep splashing water on the gutter punks.....Next to the gentlemen in straw hats C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C And O Z plays Satchmo.....Satchmo baby yeah you know who that is C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C Rag a tag of rain, city so low.....Summertime in New Orleans C G7 Am Em7 F F G7 C C G7 Am Em7 F G7 C The rag a tag of rain, city so slow.....Summertime, oh summertime in New Orleans