Won'tcha come along with me (come along with me)
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Down to the Mississippi (down to the Mississippi)
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We'll take the boat to the land of dreams
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Steamin' down that river down to the New Orleans
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Now the band's gonna meet us (band's gonna meet us)
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Lotsa old friends to greed us (old friends to greed us)
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Now that's with a high and a low brown beat
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With heaven on earth they call the Basin Street yeah
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Basin Street now that's that street where the elite always meet
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New Orleans that land of dreams
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Well you'll never know how nice it seems or just how it really means
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Oh I'm glad to be oh yes siree where these folks say kinda how you do me
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And I can lose my Basin Street blues
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In that night the piano player woke up ha ha ha
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[ piano ]
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Yeah I'm glad to be...
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And I even slept on the Bourbon Street after awhile
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Basin Street Blues
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| Jimmy Dean |
