Basin Street Blues (chromatic) Harmonica Tabs

BASIN STREET BLUES
By: Spencer Williams
Harry Connick, Jr., Brenda Lee, Willie Nelson
Key: C

1 1 2 2 -2 -2* 3
Won’t-cha come long with me
4 4 -3* -3 3 -3
to the Mis-sis-sip-pi
3 4 3 4 3 3 4 4 -5
we’ll take the boat to the lan� of dreams
4 -3* -3 3 2 2 -2 3 3 1
Steam down the riv-er down to New Or-leans
1 2 -2 -2 -2* 3
The band’s there to meet us
4 -3* -3 3 -3
Old friends to greet us
3 4 3 4 3 4 4 -5
We�ll see the place the folks all meet
5 -5 -5* -5 4
This is Ba-sin Street

2 2 2 2 2 2
Ba-sin Street is the street
2 2 -4 2 -4 -4 -3
where the e-lite al-ways meet
2 2 2 2 2 3 2
in New Or-leans, lan� of dreams
3 -5 6 5 5 -4 -4 -3
you’ll nev-er know how nice it seems,
-3 4 4 -4 -4 -3 -3 3
or just how much it real-ly means

2 2 2 -4 -4 3*
Glad to be, yes-sir-ee
2 2 -4 -3 -2 -2 2
Where wel-come’s free; dear to me
2 2 -4 -3 2 3 2 -1 1
Where I can lose, my Ba-sin Street Blues