Basin Street Blues/When It's Sleepy Time Down South - Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera and The Witnesses

In Basin street is the street

Where all the boys and the boot folks meet,

Down the New Orleans, and the land of dreams

And you’ll never know how nice it seems,

Not just how much it really means

Laloli

Go give to me, yes sirree

Give to me, yes sirree

Can’t you see baby

I can’t lose, lose good all basin street blues

Never know how nice it seems

Just how much it really means

Ehh I see the moon and the moon is pale

And I look like it takes some cat to jail

Now it’s a moon is pale the sun and the the sun is gone

And the steam wants to come in and it splashes on the good

Uhh uhh

Ehh babasdodo

And the pale moon shining on the fields below

Folks are singing songs soft and low, you

Needn’t tell me bob cause I know

It’s sleepy time down south

Soft wind blowing through the pinewood trees

And the folks down there live a life of ease

When old mammy falls upon her knees

It’s sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river coming or going

Splashing the night die

Hear babaahb… banjos ringing, everybody singing

They dance til the break of day, hey

Dear old southland and his dreamy songs

And it Takes me back there where I belong

How I’d love to be in my mammy’s arms

When it’s sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river coming or going

Splashing the night die

Hear babaahb… banjos ringing, everybody singing

They dance til the break of day, hey

Dear old southland and his dreamy songs

And it Takes me back there where I belong

How I’d love to be in my mammy’s arms

When it’s sleepy time down south