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Won't you come and go with me |
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Down that Mississippi |
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We'll take a boat to the land of dreams |
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Come along with me on, down to new orleans |
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Now the band's there to greet us |
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Old friends will meet us |
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Where all them folks goin to the St. Louis cemetary meet |
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Heaven on earth, they call it basin street |
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I'm tellin' ya, basin street is the street |
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Where all them characters from the first street they meet |
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New Orleans, land of dreams |
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You'll never miss them rice and beans |
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Way down south in New Orleans |
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They'll be huggin' and a kissin' |
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That's what I been missin' |
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And all that music lord, if you just listen |
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New orleans, I got them basin street blues |
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Now ain't you glad you went with me |
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On down that Mississippi |
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We took a boat to the land of dreams |
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Heaven on earth they call it basin street |