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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

"If Ever I Cease To Love"

It is Mardi Gras. "If Ever I Cease To Love" was once the theme song of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It is a song which does not make sense, but then neither does love, most of the time. Tomorrow it will be Lent.
In a house, in a square in a quadrant
In a street, in a lane, in a road.

 Turn to the left on the right hand
You see there my true love's abode

 I go there a courting, And cooing to my love like a dove;
And swearing on my bended knee, if ever I cease to love,
May sheep-heads grow on apple trees, If ever I cease to love.

 Chorus:
If ever I cease to love, if ever I cease to love,
May the moon be turn'd to green cream cheese,
If ever I cease to love
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2 comments:

  1. FlambeauxFebruary 17, 2015 at 3:57:00 PM EST

    Growing up there I don't think I ever heard this song. I certainly don't have any association of it with Carnival.

    May you have a blessed and fruitful Lent.

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  2. elena maria vidalFebruary 17, 2015 at 4:07:00 PM EST

    I first heard the song when reading a book about New Orleans called Crescent Carnival by Frances Parkinson Keyes. Have a great Lent!

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