New Orleans Chords

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New Orleans by Gary (US) Bonds is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			New Orleans:Gary (U.S.) Bonds. 
#6 in 1960. 

INTRO:(D is the orig. key. Check out on YouTube.) 
D 
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah. 

I said a-hey-hey-hey-yeah. 

I said, a-hey, a-hey-hey-yeah. 

Said, a-hey, a-hey-hey-yeah. 

#1. 
D 
Well, come on everybody take a trip with me. 

Well, down the Mississippi, down to New Orleans. 
             G 
They got the Honeysuckle bloomin' on the  

Honeysuckle vine. 
    D 
And love is bloomin' there, all a the time. 

Chorus: 
         A                         G 
You know every Southern Belle is a Mississippi Queen, 
D 
Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans. 
D 
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah. 

I said, hey-hey-hey-yeah. 

I said, a-hey-a-hey-a-hey-yeah. 

Said, look out now, hey-hey-yeah. 

#2. 
D 
Well, come on take a stroll down to Basin Street. 

Yeah, listen to the music with the dixieland beat. 
          G 
Where the Magnolia blossoms fill the air. 
                 D 
Yeah, and if you ain't been to Heaven 

then you ain't been there. 
             A                          G 
They got the French Moss hangin' from a big Oak tree, 
D 
Down the Mississippi, down in New Orleans. 

D 
I said, a-hey-hey-hey-yeah. Said, hey-hey-hey-yeah.(x2) 

REPEAT#1. 

Chorus: 


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat. 
    	

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