Come along get ready wear your grand brand new gown

For there's going to be a meeting in this good good old town

When you know everybody and they all know you

And you get a rabbit's foot to keep away them hoodoos

When you hear the preachin' has begin

Bend down low for to drive away your sin

When you get religion you'll wanna shout and sing

There'll be a hot time in old town tonight

My baby when you hear them bells go dingaling

All turn around and sweetly you must sing

When the birds dance too and the poets will all join in

There'll be a hot time in old town tonight

There'll be girls for everybody in this good good old town

There's Miss Gonzola Davis and Miss Gondoola Brown

There's Miss Henrietta Caesar and she's all dressed in red

I just hug and kiss her and to me then she said

Please oh please oh do not let me fall

You are mine and I love you best of all

You be my man I'll have no man at all

There'll be a hot time in old town tonight

My baby when you hear them bells go dingaling

All join around and sweetly you must sing

When the birds dance too and the poets will all join in

There'll be a hot time in old town tonight