a hot time in the old town tonight

come along

get ready

wear your grand brand-new gown

for there's going to be a meeting in this good good old town

when you know everybody and they all know you

and you get a rabbit's foot to keep away them hoodoos

when you hear the preachin' has begin

bend down low for to drive away your sin

when you get religion you'll wanna shout and sing

there'll be a hot time in old town tonight

my baby

when you hear them bells go ding-a-ling

all turn around and sweetly you must sing

when the birds dance too

and the poets will all join in

there'll be a hot time in old town tonight

there'll be girls for everybody in this good good old town

there's miss gonzola davis and miss gondoola brown

there's miss henrietta caesar

and she's all dressed in red

i just hug and kiss her

and to me then she said

please