New Orleans:Eddie Hodges.
#44 on BB Hot 100 on AURORA Records in 1965.
INTRO:
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
#1.
Come on everybody take a trip with me..
way down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
They got the Honeysuckle s bloomin on the
honeysuckle vine..
and love is bloomin there all the time.
You know every southern belle is a Mississippi Queen..
down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.
CHORUS:
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
#2.
Come on take a stroll down on Basin street..
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
and listen to the music with the Dixieland beat.
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
Where the Magnolia blossoms they fill the air..
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
and if you ain t been to heaven then you ain t
been there.
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
You got French Moss hanging from a big Oak tree..
down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
CHORUS:
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
I said, a-look out child..yeah, yeah, yeah.
(I said, a-look out child..yeah, yeah, yeah.)
#3.
Come on everybody take a trip with me..
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
way down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
They got the Honeysuckle s bloomin on the
honeysuckle vine..
(Oooooo..New Orleans..)
and love is bloomin there all the time.
You know every southern belle is a Mississippi Queen..
down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.
(INTERLUDE:SAX:) ..
OUTRO:
I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.
(I said, a-hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah.)
I said, a-look out child..yeah, yeah, yeah.
(I said, a-look out child..yeah, yeah, yeah.)(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.