| Wont you come and go with me Down that Mississippi
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| Well take a boat to the land of dreams
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| Come along with me on, down to new Orleans
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| Now the bands there to greet us Old friends will meet us Where all them folks goin to the st. |
| Louis cemetery meet
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| Heaven on earth… they call it basin street
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| Im tellin ya, basin street… is the street
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| Where all them characters from the first street they meet
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| New Orleans… land of dreams
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| You’ll never miss them rice and beans
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| Way down south in new Orleans
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| They’ll be huggin… and a kissin
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| Thats what I been missin
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| And all that music… lord, if you just listen
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| New Orleans… i got them basin street blues
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| Now ain’t you glad you went with me On down that Mississippi
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| We took a boat to the land of dreams
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| Heaven on earth… they call it basin street |