Basin Street Blues chords by Nat King Cole

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D
G
Am
F#
Bm
C
A
B
E
Em
Ebdim
Bbdim
Gdim
Dm
C#dim

Verse 1
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Am 
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Won't you come along with me,
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Am 
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G 
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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and steam down the river
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down to New Orleans.
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F# 
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Am 
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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D 
where the folks all meet
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D 
A heaven on earth, they call it
Basin Street
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D 
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B 
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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F# 
You'll never know how nice it seems
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Or just how much it really means
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B 
Near to me, dear to me
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Glad to be where the welcome's free
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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
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Singin' all his blues away
till the break of day
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While truckin' along
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with those shufflin' feet
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Those are all the things you'll see
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on Basin Street
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Many long years I've been away
Goin' back home and I'm gonna stay
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When nobody walks in the noonday sun,
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sit on the levee when the day is done.
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Em 
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Where Parson Brown says,
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get on your knees
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Dm 
and let that religion come on with ease.
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Where everyone's happy
and life is sweet,
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can't       you tell that I'm a -talkin'
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D 
bout my base and street?
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Em 
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Because it's near     to me, dear to me,
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Bm 
So glad to be  where the
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welcome's free,
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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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D 
You saw the place where the folks all meet
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A heaven   on earth, they call it
Basin Street
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C 
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