| Waters Ethel
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| Miscellaneous
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| At the New Jump Steady Ball
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| (Delaney — Easton)
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| Now the Jump Steady Club
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| They gave a ball
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| And it was held down at the New Hope Hall;
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| All the bootleggers in the town
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| Why, they brought that stuff steady along;
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| People came from far and near
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| To taste the different mixtures that they handled there;
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| When the jazz band struck up
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| You’d be surprised;
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| Everybody in the hall was google-eyed;
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| They started serving me gin and wine
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| And everything in wood alcohol line
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| Chicago pop and all, I declare
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| All kinds of hair tonic went around with the dance;
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| You make a tincture mixed with turpentine
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| With black molasses made it stupifying;
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| Extract of lemon and ginger ale
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| Mixes great with shoe polish
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| And you’re bound for jail;
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| Copasetic was the password for one and all
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| At the New Jump Steady Ball!
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| About twelve o’clock I was feeling fine
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| To tell the truth, I was out of my mind;
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| But just before I lost my head
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| I saw them carry six men out dead!
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| They walked out the window, in the air
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| They called for music, but no jazz band was there;
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| Yet everybody there was pleasure bent;
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| You could get paralyzed for fifteen cents
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| They started serving me gin and wine
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| And everything in wood alcohol line
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| Chicago pop and all, I declare
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| All kinds of hair tonic went around with the dance;
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| You make a tincture mixed with turpentine
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| With black molasses made it stupifying
|
| Extract of lemon and ginger ale
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| Mixes great with shoe polish
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| And you’re bound for jail;
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| Copasetic was the password for one and all
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| At the New Jump Steady Ball! |