Basin Street Blues

Won't you come and go with me

Down that Mississippi?

We'll take a boat to the land of dreams

Come along with me on, down to New Orleans

Now the band's there to greet us

Old friends will meet us where all them folks

Going to the St. Louis Cemetery meet

Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street

I'm telling ya, Basin Street is the street

Where all them characters from the First street they meet

New Orleans land of dreams

You'll never miss them rice and beans

Way down south in New Orleans

They'll be hugging and a-kissing

That's what I been missing

And all that music, lord, if you just listen

New Orleans, I got them Basin Street Blues

Now ain't you glad you went with me

On down that Mississippi?

We took a boat to the land of dreams

Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street