I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)
Tom Waits * Track #4 On Small Change
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Album Small Change
- #1Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
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- #2Step Right Up
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- #3Jitterbug Boy
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- #4I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)
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- #5The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)
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- #6Invitation to the Blues
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- #7Pasties and a G-String
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- #8Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
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- #9The One that Got Away
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- #10Small Change
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- #11I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work
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I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) by Tom Waits
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The fourth track from 1976’s “Small Change,” this is one of the album’s most tender and nostalgic ballads. In the song, Waits pays tribute to New Orleans in his typically anachronistic, inebriated vocal delivery. The repeated mantra of “a bottle and my friends and me” is one of the record’s most war...
I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) Lyrics
Well, I wish I was in New Orleans
I can see it 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 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 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
'Cause I can see it in my dreams
Arm-in-arm down Burgundy
A bottle and my friends and me
New Orleans, I'll be there
I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) Q&A
Who wrote I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)'s ?
I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) was written by Tom Waits.
Who produced I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)'s ?
I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) was produced by Bones Howe.
When did Tom Waits release I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)?
Tom Waits released I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward) on Mon Oct 18 1976.