Barrelhouse Bessie From Basin Street chords by
Anita O'day
Gene Krupa

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Key: F major

Intro 1
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They call her

Verse 1
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Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin Street
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She used to yodel cadenzas
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for the so cial elite
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And then she happened to meet
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The kid with the drum and
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the Dixieland beat

Verse 2
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He was    bar relhouse baron from Ma con,
GA
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His name was Muggles McGregor and
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he wore a toupee
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He taught poor Bessie to care
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But she couldn't swing, so he gave the air

Verse 3

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He left poor Bessie with a union card an

d seven years of unpaid dues

That's when she gave up her cadenzas and

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began to sing the Basin Street Blues

Verse 4
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But don't feel sorry for Bessie,
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she's now on the screen
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Her daddy's collar is ivory,
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and she's rollin' in green
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Poor Bess, the world's at her feet
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Barrelhouse Bessie from
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Basin Street
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She's doin' alreet

Verse 5

They call her Barrelhouse Bessie

from Basin Street

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I'm the gal who met the drummer with the Dixieland beat

Interlude 1

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That's the drummer with the

Verse 6

Dixieland beat

He left poor

Verse 7

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Bessie and never paid his dues

Daug

(well, how 'bout him)

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That's when she gave up tryin' to sing them blues,

blues, blues

Verse 8
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But don't feel sorry for Bessie,
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she's now on the screen
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Her daddy's collar is  ivory,
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and she's rollin' in green
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Poor Bess, the world's at her feet
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She's the Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin
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Street (hey, boy)
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She's doin' alreet

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