Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
[Verse 1]
Come along, get ready, wear your bran', bran' new gown
For there's going to be a meeting in this good, good old town
Where you know everybody, and they all know you
And you get a rabbit foot to keep away them hoo-doo
[Chorus]
When you hear that the preachin' does begin
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
When you get religion, you wanna shout and sing
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
My baby, when you hear them bells go ding-a-ling
All join around and sweetly you must sing
When the verse am through, and the chorus all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
[Trumpet Solo]
[Verse 2]
There'll be girls for ev'ry body in this good, good old town
There's Miss Consola Davis, and there's Miss Gonzula Brown
There's Miss Henrietta Pisa, and she's all dressed in red
I just hugged and kissed her, and to me then she said
[Chorus]
"Please, oh please, oh do not let me fall
You are mine, and I love you best of all
You'll be my man, or I'll have no man at all"
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
My baby, when you hear them bells go ding-a-ling
All join around and sweetly you must sing
When the verse am through in the chorus we'll all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight was written by Joe Hayden & Theodore A. Metz & Traditional.
Bessie Smith released There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight on Sun Jul 10 1927.