Basin Street Blues / When It’s Sleepy Time Down South chords by Keely Smith, Louis Prima

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Verse 1
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In Basin Street
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is  the street
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Where all the boys and
the boot folks meet
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Down the New Orleans,
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and the land of dreams
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And you'll never know how nice it seems
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Not just how much it really means
Laloli

Verse 2

Go give to me, yes sirree

Give to me, yes sirree

Can't you see baby

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I can't lose, lose good all Basin Street blues

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Interlude 1
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Never know how nice it seems Just

Verse 3
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how much it really means
Ehh I see the moon and
the moon is pale
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And I look like it takes some cat to jail
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Now it's a moon is pale the sun
and the the sun is gone
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And the steam wants to come
in and it splashes on the good
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Uhh uhh
Ehh babasdodo

Verse 4
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And the pale moon shining
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on the fields below
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Folks are singing songs soft and low,
you
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Needn't tell me bob 'cause I know
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It's sleepy time down south

Verse 5
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Soft wind blowing
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through the pinewood trees
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And the folks down there
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live a life of ease
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When old mammy falls upon her knees
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It's sleepy time down south
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Steamboats on the river

Verse 6
coming or going
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Splashing the night die
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Hear babaahb, banjos ringing,
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everybody singing
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They dance 'til the break of day, hey

Verse 7
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Dear old southland and
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his dreamy songs
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And it takes me back there
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where I belong
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How I'd love to be
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in my mammy's arms
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When it's sleepy time down south

Interlude 2
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Steamboats

Verse 8
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on the river coming or going
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Splashing the night die
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Hear babaahb, banjos ringing,
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everybody singing
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They dance 'til the break of day, hey
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Dear old southland and

Verse 9
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his dreamy songs
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And it takes me back there where I belong
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How I'd love to be in my mammy's
arms
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When it's sleepy time down south
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