There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (Remastered 2016)

There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (Remastered 2016) - Bessie Smith

Come along get you ready Wear your bran' bran' new gown

For there's gwine to be a meeting In that good good old town

Where you knowded everybody 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 there's Miss Consola Davis And there's Miss Gondolia Brown

And there's Miss Johanna Beasly She am dressed all in red

I just hugged her and I kissed her And to me then 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