Basin Street Blues (chromatic)

BASIN STREET BLUES
By: Spencer Williams
Harry Connick, Jr., Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson
Key: C

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Won't-cha come long with me
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to the Mis-sis-sip-pi
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we'll take the boat to the lan’ of dreams
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Steam down the riv-er down to New Or-leans
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The band's there to meet us
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Old friends to greet us
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We’ll see the place the folks all meet
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This is Ba-sin Street

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Ba-sin Street is the street
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where the e-lite al-ways meet
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in New Or-leans, lan’ of dreams
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you'll nev-er know how nice it seems,
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or just how much it real-ly means

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Glad to be, yes-sir-ee
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Where wel-come's free; dear to me
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Where I can lose, my Ba-sin Street Blues