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New Orleans:Gary (U.S.) Bonds.
#6 in 1960.
INTRO:(D is the orig. key. Check out on YouTube.)
D
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah.
I said a-hey-hey-hey-yeah.
I said, a-hey, a-hey-hey-yeah.
Said, a-hey, a-hey-hey-yeah.
#1.
D
Well, come on everybody take a trip with me.
Well, down the Mississippi, down to New Orleans.
G
They got the Honeysuckle bloomin' on the
Honeysuckle vine.
D
And love is bloomin' there, all a the time.
Chorus:
A G
You know every Southern Belle is a Mississippi Queen,
D
Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans.
D
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah.
I said, hey-hey-hey-yeah.
I said, a-hey-a-hey-a-hey-yeah.
Said, look out now, hey-hey-yeah.
#2.
D
Well, come on take a stroll down to Basin Street.
Yeah, listen to the music with the dixieland beat.
G
Where the Magnolia blossoms fill the air.
D
Yeah, and if you ain't been to Heaven
then you ain't been there.
A G
They got the French Moss hangin' from a big Oak tree,
D
Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans.
D
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah. Said, hey-hey-hey-yeah.(x2)
REPEAT#1.
Chorus:
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.