June Tenth Jamboree (01-25-40) - Louis Jordan

I want to tell you a story from 'way back:

Truck on down and gig me, jack

In eighteen hundred and sixty-five

A hep cat started some jive

He said, «Come on, gates, and jump with me

At the Juneteenth Jamboree.»

The rhythm was swinging at the picnic ground

Fried chicken floating all around;

Everybody there was full of glee

Trumpets blaring in the air

Mellow barbecue everywhere

Clarinets moaning in the hall;

All the gates was having a ball

They didn’t know how to cut no rug

But all the cats had a gal and jug

Everybody happy as they could be

At the Juneteenth Jamboree!