At the Jazzband Ball

At the Jazzband Ball - Bing Crosby (平克·勞斯)/Louis Armstrong (路易斯·阿姆斯特朗)

Back when a nickel would buy

A jug jigger of respectable rye

Yeah the players in the honky tonks

Would have to work on a slide

One two was known to a few

Some steady habitues too

So the word of mouth spread around the south

Very entrez-nous

You better dig that jazz band ball

Cause it's the ball of them all

All five positions in the small saloon

Inventin' the rag time tune

They gotta made up their own brand

Without a note up on the stand

And they called it D I X I E

Hot pan alley candy land

Well sir you know it caught on

What's more it was strictly bontom

Cause like the winner at the starting gate

The music got it and gone

It moved from over the tracks

Into the society shacks

It was wonderful

And deductible from the income tax

You better dig that jazz band ball

Cause it's the ball of them all

When the trumpet player takes a monologue

The people shout "well ooh that dog"

And if you ask how come that yell

They kinda grin then say well

When the band plays J A double zee

It's a B A double L

When the band plays J A double zee

It's a B A double L