Steam down the river down to New Orleans
Where welcomes free are dear to me
My Basin Street blues
Basin Street is the street
My Basin Street blues
We'll take the boat to the land of dreams
Where I can lose
Where welcomes free are dear to me
Heaven on earth, they call it Basin Street
Glad to be, oh yessiree
Ain't you glad you came with me
Where I can lose
The band's there to meet us
And old friends to greet us
We took the boat to the land of dreams
Where the elite always meet
Way down to the Mississippi?
Or just how much it really means
Glad to be, oh yessiree
Where all the people always meet
You'll never know how nice it seems
In New Orleans, the land of dreams
