Artist/Band: 
Brenda Lee 
Lyrics for Song: Basin Street Blues 
Lyrics for Album: For the First Time (w. Pete Fontaine) [Decca] [1968]
  
               
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  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
  The bands there to meet us
  Old friends to greet us
  Where all the elite, always meet
  Heaven on earth they call it Basin Street/
 
 
  Basin Street is the street where the elite, always meet
  In New Orleans land of dreams
  You never know how nice it seems
  Or how much it really means
  Glad to be, yes siree, where welcome Street,
  Dear to me
  Where I can lose my Basin Street blues.
 
 
  Well, Basin Street, you know it's the street
  Where all the swinging people meet
  In New Orleans, land of dreams
  Your'll never know how nice it seems
  Or just how much it really means
  Glad to be, ah, yes siree, where welcome Street
  Dear to me
  Where I can lose my Basin Street blues.
 
 
  Oh, ain't ya glad ya came with us
  Mhm, down the Mississippi
  Down to the street, where the folks all meet
  Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street...
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