Lyrics At The New Jump Steady Ball (c. -07-22) - Ethel Waters

At The New Jump Steady Ball (c. -07-22)

Waters Ethel
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At the New Jump Steady Ball
(Delaney — Easton)
Now the Jump Steady Club
They gave a ball
And it was held down at the New Hope Hall;
All the bootleggers in the town
Why, they brought that stuff steady along;
People came from far and near
To taste the different mixtures that they handled there;
When the jazz band struck up
You’d be surprised;
Everybody in the hall was google-eyed;
They started serving me gin and wine
And everything in wood alcohol line
Chicago pop and all, I declare
All kinds of hair tonic went around with the dance;
You make a tincture mixed with turpentine
With black molasses made it stupifying;
Extract of lemon and ginger ale
Mixes great with shoe polish
And you’re bound for jail;
Copasetic was the password for one and all
At the New Jump Steady Ball!
About twelve o’clock I was feeling fine
To tell the truth, I was out of my mind;
But just before I lost my head
I saw them carry six men out dead!
They walked out the window, in the air
They called for music, but no jazz band was there;
Yet everybody there was pleasure bent;
You could get paralyzed for fifteen cents
They started serving me gin and wine
And everything in wood alcohol line
Chicago pop and all, I declare
All kinds of hair tonic went around with the dance;
You make a tincture mixed with turpentine
With black molasses made it stupifying
Extract of lemon and ginger ale
Mixes great with shoe polish
And you’re bound for jail;
Copasetic was the password for one and all
At the New Jump Steady Ball!