Basin Street Blues Lyrics - Singles - Jimmy Dean

Won'tcha come along with me (come along with me) 

Down to the Mississippi (down to the Mississippi) 

We'll take the boat to the land of dreams 

Steamin' down that river down to the New Orleans 

Now the band's gonna meet us (band's gonna meet us) 

Lotsa old friends to greed us (old friends to greed us) 

Now that's with a high and a low brown beat 

With heaven on earth they call the Basin Street yeah 

Basin Street now that's that street where the elite always meet 

New Orleans that land of dreams 

Well you'll never know how nice it seems or just how it really means 

Oh I'm glad to be oh yes siree where these folks say kinda how you do me 

And I can lose my Basin Street blues 

In that night the piano player woke up ha ha ha 

[ piano ] 

Yeah I'm glad to be... 

And I even slept on the Bourbon Street after awhile