Note: We are very unsure of many of these words, but the song is too good to leave out!***]



(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