Basin Street Blues - Easy & Complete
by Louis Armstrong
- Type:
- Diatonic
- Key:
- E
- Posted by:
- jes1000
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Won't you come along with me
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To the Mississippi?
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We'll take a boat to the land of dreams
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Steam down the river, down to New Orleans
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The band's there to meet us
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Old friends, there to greet us
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Where all the proud and elite folks meet
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Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street
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Basin Street is the street
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Where the best folks always meet
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In New Orleans, land of dreams
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You'll never know how nice it seems
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Or just how much it really means
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Glad to be, oh yes-siree
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Where welcome's free and dear to me
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Where I can lose, my Basin Street blues