Basin Street Blues
Words & Music by Spencer Williams, 1926
Recorded by Louis Armstrong, 1928
[G7] [C] [G7] [Cdim] [C] [C] [Dm7] [Cdim] [C]
Won't you come along with me
[C] [Dm7] [C7] [G7+5] [C] [Bb] [G7+5]
Down that Mis - sis - sip - pi;
[C] [C7] [F] [Fm]
We'll take a boat to the land of dreams,
[C] [G/B] [Am7] [Bb9] [G7] [C] [G]
Steam down the river down to New Orleans.
[C] [G7] [Cdim] [C] [C] [Dm7] [Cdim] [C]
The band's there to greet us,
[C] [C7] [G7] [G7+5] [C] [Bb] [G7+5]
Old friends will meet us,
[C] [C7] [F] [Fm]
Where all people like to meet
[C] [C/B] [Am7] [Am7/G] [G7] [C] [G7]
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street
[C] [C/B] [E7]
Basin Street is the street
[A7] [A7]/9 [A] [A7]
Where the elite always meet --
[D] [Am7] [D9] [G7]
In New Orleans, land of dreams
[C9] [C] [CM7] [Cdim]
You'll never know how nice it seems
[Dm7] [Em7] [F7] [G7]
Or just how much it really means.
[C] [C/B] [E7]
Glad to be, yessiree,
[A7] [A7]/9 [A] [A7]
Where welcomes free, dear to me,
[F] [Dm7] [G7] [G7]/6 [G7] [G7]/6 [C] [C] [F] [Fm] [Bb9] [C]
Where I can lose my Ba - sin Street Blues.
