Basin Street Blues
Words & Music by Spencer Williams, 1926
Recorded by Louis Armstrong, 1928


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Won't you come along with me

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Down that Mis - sis - sip - pi;

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We'll take a boat to the land of dreams,

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Steam down the river down to New Orleans.


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The band's there to greet us,

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Old friends will meet us,

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Where all people like to meet

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Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street


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Basin Street is the street

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Where the elite always meet --

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In New Orleans, 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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Glad to be, yessiree,

      A7       A7/9   A      A7
Where welcomes free, dear to me,

      F      Dm7 G7   G7/6  G7  G7/6    C    C  F Fm Bb9  C
Where I can lose    my Ba - sin Street Blues.