Ethel Waters At The New Jump Steady Ball Lyrics

At The New Jump Steady Ball Lyrics

Note: We are very unsure of many of these words, but the song is too good to
leave out!***] 



(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