If Beale Street could talk

Beale Street could talk

Married men would have to

Take their be-eds and walk

Except one or two

Who never drink booze

And the blind man on the corner

Who-oo sings the Beale Street Blues



I'd rather be here

Than any pla-ace I know

I'd rather be here

Than any place I know-ow

It's gonna take the sergeant

For to make me go



Goin' to the river

Maybe by-y and by

Goin' to the river

And there's a reason why

Because the river's wet

And Beale Street's done gone dry



Goin' to the river

Maybe by-y and by

Goin' to the river

And there's a rea-eason why

Because the river's wet

And Beale Street's done gone dry

Because the river's wet

And Beale Street's done gone dry

Because the river's wet

And Beale Street's do-one go-one dry...