a hot time in the old town chords by Bessie Smith

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Verse 1
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Come along,
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get you ready Wear your bran', bran' new gown
For there's gwine to be a meeting In that good,
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good old town
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Where you knowded everybody
And they all knowded you
And you've got a rabbit's foot
To keep away de hoo-doo.
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When

Verse 2
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When you hear that
the preaching does begin
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Bend down low for to drive away your sin
And when you gets religion,
you want to shout and sing
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There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight,
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My baby

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Verse 3

When you hear dem a bells go ding ling ling

All join 'round and sweetly you must sing

And when the verse am through

in the chorus all join in

There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.

Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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There'll be girls for ev'ry body: In that good,
good old town,
For there's Miss Consola Davis And
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there's Miss Gondolia Brown
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And there's Miss Johanna
Beasly She am dressed all in red,
I just hugged her and I kissed her
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And to me then she said:
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Verse 5
oh please,
oh do not let me fall,
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You're all mine and I
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love you best of all,
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And you must be my man,
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or I'll have no man at all,
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There'll be a hot
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time in the old town tonight,
My baby
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