Lyrics Basin Street Blues - Merle Haggard , Preservation Hall Jazz Band

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 their to meet us
Old friends their to greet us
We'll see the place where the folks all meet
Heaven on earth they call it basin street

Basin street is the street where the elite will all ways meet

Oh, you'll never know how nice it seems or just how much it really means

Glad to be, yes sir re, we're welcomes free dear to me where I can loose my basin street blues

Basin street is where we'll always meet
You've got to go there to meet the elite
New Orleans land of dreams. if you know what I mean

Glad to be yes sir re where welcomes free dear to me where I can lose

My basin street blues

My basin street ... blues