Where the elite always meet Down in New Orleans, the land of dreams Or just how much it really means The land of dreams where I can lose My Basin Street blues Now won't you come along with me To the Mississippi? We'll take a trip to the land of dreams

Take me, take me somewhere trouble don't go Make me, make me someone trouble don't know But he wants to go too far Then comes heartache right behind Now he won't come down my street He locked up my heart in jail Devil had a daughter Took him to deep