At The Jazz Band Ball

At The Jazz Band Ball - Bing Crosby (平克·劳斯)/Louis Armstrong (路易斯·阿姆斯特朗)

Lyrics by：Nick LaRocca/Larry Shields/Johnny Mercer

Composed by：Nick LaRocca/Larry Shields/Johnny Mercer

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

Four five positions in the small saloon

Inventin' the rag time tune

Because they 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 JA double zee

It's a BA double L

When the band plays JA double zee

It's a BA double L