At The New Jump Steady Ball (03-21/22-21) - Ethel Waters

Waters Ethel

Miscellaneous

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!