OLD NEW ORLEANS BLUES
As recorded by New Orleans Willie Jackson, Columbia 14136-D, 1926.

Have you ever been down south in dear old New Orleans?
Have you ever been down south in dear old New Orleans?
It's a nasty town; got things there that you never seen.

Canal Street's made for diamonds, and Saint Charles Street's made for gold.
Canal Street's made of diamonds, and Saint Charles Street's made for gold.
But when you go back o' town, you're bound to see nothin' but old Creoles.

You take a pleasure trip riding on the cap'tol boat.
Take a pleasure trip riding on the cap'tol boat.
You end up in the lake, out in the Spanish Fort.

You ever go to Memphis, stop down at Jim Colane(?).
You ever go to Memphis, stop down at Jim Colane(?).
There's a place where monkey women will learn just how to treat they man.

Deedly-dum...[etc., scat verse].

And I dreamt last night, baby, my house was burnin' down.
I said I dreamt last night, my house was burnin' down.
But it was a cootie with a lantern making his fore-day round.