New Orleans Memories will live on: Floods and Heartache Can't Take Them Away

The music is not silent.
It lives in our hearts.
The light may be off
The good 'ol days lived at New Orleans
Are still vivid in my mind
I remember the late stroll
in the French quarter now deserted

The jazz music may be gone for now
The musicians may be flooded out
The artists may have lost their cherised works
The compositions may be wet
The tap shoes may be carried away by waves of despair
But the music will go on.
Long after the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
The memories of these August days may last.
But they will not take away the fun of living