Lyrics:
Come along, get you ready, wear your bran', bran' new gown
For dere's gwine to be a meeting in that good, good old town,
Where you knowded ev'rybody, and they all knowded you,
And you've got a rabbit's foot to keep away de hoo-doo;
When you hear that the preaching does begin,
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
And when you gets religion, you want to shout and sing,
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.
chorus:
When you hear dem a bells go ding, ling ling,
All join 'round and sweetly you must sing
And when the verse am through, in the chorus all join in,
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.
There'll be girls for ev'ry body in that good, good old town,
For dere's Miss Consola Davis And dere's Miss Gondolia Brown;
And dere's Miss Johanna Beasly, she am dressed all in red,
I just hugged her and I kissed her and to me than she said:
Please oh, please, oh, do not let me fall,
You're all mine and I love you best of all,
And you must be my man, or I'll have no man at all,
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.
