Come along get you ready wear your bran, bran new gown
For dere's gwine to be a meeting in that good, good old town
Where you knowded ev'ry body, and dey all knowded you
And you've got a rabbits foot to keep away de hoodo
When you hear that the preaching does begin
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
And when you gets religion, You want to shout and sing
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby
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
There'll be girls for ev'ry body in that good, good old town
For dere's Miss Consola Davis an dere's Miss Gondolia Brown
And dere's Miss Johanna Beasly she am dressed all in red
I just hugged her and I kissed her and to me than she said:
Please oh, please, oh, do not let me fall
You're all mine and I love you best of all
And you must be my man, or I'll have no man at all
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby
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