Beale Street Blues

Beale Street Blues - Bessie Smith/Dukes Of Dixieland

I've seen the lights of gay Broadway

Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay

I've strolled the Prado

I've gambled on the Bourse

The seven wonders of the world I've seen

And many are the places I have been

Take my advice folks

And visit Beale Street first

If Beale Street could talk

If Beale Street could talk

Married men would have to take their beds and walk

Except one or two who never drink booze

And the blind man on the corner singing

"Beale Street Blues"

I'd rather be there than any place I know

I'd rather be there than any place I know

It's gonna take a sergeant for to make me go

I'm goin' to the river maybe by and by

Goin' to the river and there's a reason why

Because the river's wet

And Beale Street's done gone dry