I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)

by Tom Waits

From the album: Small Change

Track 4 of 11 on Small Change (1976).

Duration: 4:53

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Lyrics for I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)

Well I wish I was in New Orleans I can see it in my dreams Arm in arm down Burgundy A bottle and my friends and me Hoist up a few tall cool ones Play some pool and listen to that Tenor saxaphone calling me home And I can hear the band begin When The Saints Go Marching In By the whiskers on my chin New Orleans I'll be there I'll drink you under the table Be red nose go for walks The old haunts what I wants Is red beans and rice And wear the dress I like so well Meet me at the old saloon Make sure there's a Dixie moon New Orleans I'll be there And deal the cards roll the dice If it ain't that ole Chuck E. Weiss And Clayborn Avenue me and you Sam Jones and all And I wish I was in New Orleans I can see it in my dreams Arm in arm down Burgundy A bottle and my friends and me New Orleans I'll be there

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  1. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
  2. Step Right Up
  3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and The Mug and Artie)
  4. I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
  5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King)
  6. Invitation To The Blues
  7. Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)
  8. Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
  9. The One That Got Away
  10. Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
  11. I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)