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

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

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