
Basin Street Blues
by Jimmy McPartland, Easton, Ted's Jazzband & Bud Freeman
Lyrics and Meaning
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Song Lyrics
Song Meaning
Verse 1
Won't you come along with me
To the Mississippi
We'll take a boat to the land of dreams
Steam down the river, down to New Orleans
Verse 2
The band's there to meet us
Old friends there to greet us
Where all the proud and elite folks meet
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street
Verse 3
Basin Street is the street
Where the best folks always meet
In New Orleans, land of dreams
You'll never know how nice it seems,
Or just how much it really means
Verse 4
Glad to be, oh yes-sirree
Where welcome's free and dear to me
Where I can lose, lose my Basin Street Blues
Verse 5
Basin Street, oh Basin Street
Is the street, mama
New Orleans, land of dreams