New Orleans

New Orleans - Gary U.S. Bonds

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

Well come on ev'rybody

Take a trip with me

Well down the Mississippi

Down to New Orleans

They got the honeysuckle bloomin'

On the honeysuckle vine

And a-love is a-bloomin' there

All-a the time

You know ev'ry southern belle

Is a Mississippi queen

Down the Mississippi

Down in New Orleans

I said a-hey-hey-hey-yeah

I said hey-hey-hey-yeah

I said a-hey-a-hey-a-hey-yeah

Said a-hey-hey-hey-yeah

Well come on take a stroll

Down to basin street

Yeah listen to the music

With the dixieland beat

A-where the magnolia blossoms

Fill the air

Yeah and if you ain't been to heaven

Then you ain't been there

They got the french moss

Hangin' from a big oak tree

Down the Mississippi

Down in New Orleans

I said a-hey-hey-hey-yeah

Said hey-hey-hey-yeah

I said a-look out child

Yeah yeah yeah

Said look out child yeah yeah yeah

Well come on ev'rybody

Take a trip with me

Well down the Mississippi

Down to New Orleans

Well the honeysuckle's bloomin'

On the honeysuckle vine

Yeah and the love is a-bloomin' there

All the time

You know that ev'ry southern belle

Is a Mississippi queen

Down the Mississippi

Down in New Orleans

Hey hey

Well I says a-hey-hey-a-hey-yeah

Said yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah

I said a-look out child

Yeah yeah yeah