Beale Street Blues (Album Version) - W.C. Handy
I've seen the lights of gay Broadway
Old Market Street down by the Frisco Bay
I've strolled the Prado
I've gambled on the Bourse
The seven wonders of the world I've seen
And many are the places I have been
Take my advice folks
And see old Beale Street first
You'll see pretty browns in beautiful gowns
You'll see tailor-mades and hand-me-downs
You'll meet honest men
And pick-pockets skilled
You'll find that business never ceases
'Til somebody gets killed
You'll see Hog-Nose rest'rants and Chitlin' Cafes
You'll see Jugs that tell of bygone days
And places once places now just a sham
You'll find Golden Balls enough to pave the New Jerusalem
If Beale Street could talk
If Beale Street could talk
Married men would have to take their beds and walk
Except one or two who never drink booze
And the blind man on the corner
Who sings the"Beale Street Blues
I'd rather be here than any place I know
I'd rather be right here than any place I know
It's gonna take the Sergeant for to make me go
Goin' to the river maybe by and by
Mississippi river and there's a reason why
Because the river's wet
And old Beale Street's gone dry
