The song I Wish I Was In New Orleans is performed by Tom Waits in the album named Small Change in the year 1990 .
Well, I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see 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 saxophone calling me home
And I can hear the band begin, 'When the saints go marching in'
And by the whiskers on my chin, New Orleans, I'll be there
I'll drink you under the table, be a red-nosed, go for walks
The old haunts what I wants is red beans and rice
And wear the dress I like so well, and meet me at the old saloon
Make sure that there's a Dixie moon, New Orleans, I'll be there
And deal the cards, roll the dice, if it ain't that old Chuck E Weiss
And Claiborne Avenue, me and you Sam Jones and all
And I wish I was in New Orleans, I can see in my dreams
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy, a bottle and my friends and me
New Orleans, I'll be there
Tom Waits - Small Change
- Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen)
- Step Right Up
- Jitterbug Boy (Sharing A Curbstone With Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body And The Mug...
- I Wish I Was In New Orleans (In The Ninth Ward)
- The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)
- Invitation To The Blues
- Pasties And A G-String (At The Two O'Clock Club)
- Bad Liver And A Broken Heart (In Lowell)
- The One That Got Away
- Small Change (Got Rained On With His Own .38)
- I Can't Wait To Get Off Work (And See My Baby On Montgomery Avenue)