There'll Be A Hot Time IN The Old Town Tonight
by
Bessie Smith
, classic jazz
Bessie Smith says:
Here's a classic jazz tune for you written in 1896 ~ I bet you'll know the melody already!
"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 knowed everybody,
And they all knowed you,
And you've got a rabbit's foot
To keep away the hoodoo ...
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