LOUIS ARMSTRONG - Basin Street Blues lyrics

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Won't you come and go with me<br>Down that mississippi<br>We'll take a boat to the land of dreams<br>Come along with me on, down to new orleans<br><br>Now the band's there to greet us<br>Old friends will meet us<br>Where all them folks goin to the st. louis cemetary meet<br>Heaven on earth.... they call it basin street<br><br>I'm tellin' ya, basin street...... is the street<br>Where all them characters from the first street they meet<br>New orleans..... land of dreams<br>You'll never miss them rice and beans<br>Way down south in new orleans<br><br>They'll be huggin'.... and a kissin'<br>That's what I been missin'<br>And all that music....lord, if you just listen'<br>New orleans....i got them basin street blues<br><br>(instrumental break)<br><br>Now ain't you glad you went with me<br>On down that mississippi<br>We took a boat to the land of dreams<br>Heaven on earth...they call it basin street