Key: Eb major•
Verse 1
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Won't you come along with me,
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down the Mississippi?
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We'll take a boat to the
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land of dreams,
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A band's there to meet us,
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old friends to greet us.
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You'll see the place
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where the folks all meet
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A heaven on earth, they call it
Basin Street
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Basin Street is the street
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Where the dark and the light folks meet
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In New Orleans,
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the land of dreams
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You'll never know how nice it seems
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Or just how much it really means
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Near to me, dear to me
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Where I can lose
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My Basin Street Blues
Hear them sing,
they're plenty happy
There's Cindy Lou,
take a look at Tabby
till the break of day
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with those shufflin' feet
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Those are all the things you'll see
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Many long years I've been away
Goin' back home and I'm gonna stay
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sit on the levee when the day is done.
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Where Parson Brown says,
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and let that religion come on with ease.
and life is sweet,
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can't you tell that I'm a -talkin'
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bout my base and street?
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Because it's near to me, dear to me,
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So glad to be where the
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Losing, losing,
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losing my base in street blues.
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Now ain't you glad you came with me,
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Way, way, way down the Mississippi?
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You saw the place where the folks all meet
Basin Street
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