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Basin Street Blues / When It's Sleepy Time Down South Lyrics
Louis Prima
In Basin street is the street
where all the boys and the boot folks meet,
down the New Orleans, and the land of dreams
And you'll never know how nice it seems,
not just how much it really means
laloli

go give to me, yes sirree
give to me, yes sirree
can't you see baby
I can't lose, lose good all basin street blues

Never know how nice it seems
just how much it really means
ehh I see the moon and the moon is pale
And I look like it takes some cat to jail
Now it's a moon is pale the sun and the the sun is gone
and the steam wants to come in and it splashes on the good
uhh uhh
ehh babasdodo

And the pale moon shining on the fields below
Folks are singing songs soft and low, you
Needn't tell me bob cause I know
It's sleepy time down south

Soft wind blowing through the pinewood trees
and the folks down there live a life of ease
When old mammy falls upon her knees
It's sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river coming or going
Splashing the night die
Hear babaahb... banjos ringing, everybody singing
They dance til the break of day, hey

Dear old southland and his dreamy songs
and it Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in my mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time down south

Steamboats on the river coming or going
Splashing the night die
Hear babaahb... banjos ringing, everybody singing
They dance til the break of day, hey
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Louis Prima Sing Sing Sing

Sing, sing, sing, sing, everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bahbah bah dah
Now you're singin with a swing
sing sing sing sing everybody start to sing like dee dee dee, bah bahbah dah
Now you're singin like evrything.

When teh music goes around,
everybody's gonna go to town.
But here is one thing you should know
Sing it high and sing it low.
Oh, sing sing sing sing everybody start to sing like dee dee dee,bah bah bah dah
Now you're singin with a real good swing!

Dear old southland and his dreamy songs
and it Takes me back there where I belong
How I'd love to be in my mammy's arms
When it's sleepy time down south

Le groupe est formé de deux musiciens noirs, Booker T. Jones (pianiste et organiste « électrique ») et Al Jackson (batteur), et de deux blancs, Steve Cropper (guitariste) et Donald "Duck" Dunn (bassiste), tous déjà musiciens d'accompagnement pour Stax.

De 1963 à 1971, les MG's accompagnent toutes les plus grandes stars de Stax et d'Atlantic : Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Rufus Thomas, Eddie Floyd, Albert King, etc. Ils gravent également une dizaine d'albums sous leur propre nom, dont Hip-Hug-Her en 1967. Ils jouent au festival Monterey Pop avec Otis Redding. Le titre Soul Limbo est utilisé par la BBC comme jingle pour les programmes de cricket.

Après dix ans, les quatre musiciens surmenés décident de se séparer, non sans enregistrer un dernier album pour Stax : Melting Pot. Ils ont participé à l'enregistrement de plus de six cents disques et ont façonné le son de la soul de Memphis. Dunn et Jackson furent un des duos rythmiques les plus célèbres de l'Histoire. Ils assuraient un tempo métronomique d'une simplicité extraordinairement efficace. Cropper, guitariste de génie, également compositeur, et Jones, n'étaient pas en reste. Ce dernier, parfois remplacé par Isaac Hayes, apportait une touche jazzy à l'ensemble.