Song title: New Orleans
New Orleans
Come on everybody take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
The honey suckle is bloomin on the honeysuckle vine
And love is blomin there all the time.
Every Southern elle is a Mississippi queen,
Down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.
Come on take a stroll down to Basin Street
And listen to the music with the Dixieland beat.
The magnolia bloosoms fills the air.
If you ain't been to heaven, then you ain't been there.
French moss hangin' from a big oak tree,
Down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.
Come on everybody take a trip with me
Down the Mississippi down to New Orleans.
The honey suckle is bloomin on the honeysuckle vine
And love is blomin there all the time.
Every Southern elle is a Mississippi queen,
Down the Mississippi down in New Orleans.
This song has never been published on any official release.
Very few performances of this songs are known (to me, at least!):
- 02/09/1972 Huddy Park, Highlands,NJ ,USA
- 13/05/1976 Municiple Auditorium, New Orleans,LA ,USA during the Chicken scratch Tour
- 15/06/1981 Old Waldorf, San Francisco,CA ,USA
- 02/07/1989 The Cafe Bar, Long Branch,NJ ,USA during the Summer '89 bar Tour
- 16/08/1989 Cheers, Long Branch,NJ ,USA during the Summer '89 bar Tour
Data from the www.brucespringsteen.it database
First known live performance: 02/09/1972 Huddy Park, Highlands,NJ ,USA
Last known live performance: 16/08/1989 Cheers, Long Branch,NJ ,USA
Song 'history':
One only performance during the Born to Run tour
Played during the 'Summer '89 bar tour', which is the name under which I group the 1989 shows Bruce played with various small bands, or guesting, between March and September 1989
The song was also played in informal happenings or off-tour appearances
Data from the www.brucespringsteen.it database