Jersey Bounce Lyrics

Jersey Bounce lyrics

Jersey Bounce

 Ella Fitzgerald

 Words by Robert B. Wright

 Music by Bobby Plater, Tiny Bradshaw, and Edward Johnson

 

 - As sung by Ella Fitzgerald, who did NOT chart it

 - Most popular version, by Benny Goodman, hit # 1 in 1942, was an
instrumental

 - Also charted that same year by Jimmy Dorsey (#9) and Shep Fields (#15)

 

 (scat intro)

 They call it that Jersey bounce

 A rhythm that really counts

 The temperature always mounts

 Wherever they play, the funny rhythm they play

 

 It started on Journal Square

 And somebody heard it there

 He put it right on the air

 And now you hear it everywhere

 

 Uptown, gave it new licks

 Downtown, added some tricks

 No town, makes it sound, the same

 As where it came from

 

 So if you dont feel so hot

 Go out to some Jersey spot

 And whether youre hep or not

 The Jersey bouncell make you swing

 

 (scat)

 How I love that Jersey bounce

 (scat)

 Oh come on and play that Jersey bounce

 (scat)

 

 They call it that Jersey bounce

 A rhythm that really counts

 The temperature always mounts

 Whenever they play that Jersey Bounce

 

 It started on Journal Square

 And somebody heard it there

 He put it right on the air

 That tune called the Jersey Bounce

 

 Uptown, gave it new licks

 Downtown, added some tricks

 No town, make it sound the same

 As where it came from

 

 So if you dont feel so hot

 Go out to some Jersey spot

 And whether youre hep or not

 The Jersey bouncell make you swing

 

 Ounce by ounce

 The Jersey Bounce

 Puts you right in the swing

 That Jersey Bounce

 Itll make you swing

 

 Give me that Jersey Bounce.