BLUES FOR RAMPART STREET
As sung by Ida Cox with the Coleman Hawkins Quintet, on the album "Blues for Rampart Street" (1990).

Rampart Street in New Orleans town,
Known to ev'ryone for miles around,
Creole music and real jazz bands,
That's the best spot in all the land.

In most ev'ry cabaret,
They turn night into day.
I'm blue from my head down to my feet,
Blue for dear old Rampart Street.

I yearn to go down to Tom Anderson's Cafe.
I want to hear that Creole jazz band play.
The Cadillac, the Red Onion, too,
The Boogie-Woogie and the Parc Sans Sou'—
You can enjoy yourself down on Rampart Street.

I yearn to go down to Tom Anderson's Cafe.
I want to hear that Creole jazz band play.
The Boogie-Woogie and the Parc Sans Sou',
Annie Lou, the Red Onion too—
I want to go down home on Rampart Street.