A blues song from 1937
Words and music by Spencer Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Hear them croon the old Canal Street Chant
In the land of dreamy scenes
Where love songs are sung in harmony
It’s the Heart of New Orleans
When they hum that melody entrancin’
Blues just seems to fade away
Every night is young and love is free
Where the moonbeams softly play
Every Creole Dandy with his Creole Mandy
Makes you live again the Mardi Gras
With their patois anthem
When they patios chant them
And they sure can Chantez la Bas
You will croon the old Canal Street Chant
If you’ve got a soul you’ll sing
Where love songs are sung in harmony
Down where music’s everything
Interlude
If you want to see sights beyond compare
Hear a melody waft the perfumed air
Come on down to a town
Where new thrills are to be found
In my happy huntin’ ground
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: