How it all goes down
Sure ain't plain to see
Nobody knows for sure
How it all came to be
All the laughing faces
Behind the painted smiles
Talk the talk of swing bop
For the people
Dance hall's bastard child
Talking 'bout New Orleans
Nothing here is what it seems
Passed down the showbiz dream
Talking 'bout New Orleans
We got to jump the way
They think we jump all day
We got to dance the dance
Just how the white man say
For sure we play the game
For sure we walk the line
We just taking what chances coming
Between the nickel and the dime
Talking 'bout New Orleans
Nothing's what it seems
Passed down the showbiz dream
Well I'm talking 'bout New Orleans
Oh, we dance the dance
We got to jump the way
Oh jump, jump
The way they want us to play
The way the white man say
Oh jump, jump
You got to do what they say
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah
New Orleans
Nothing is what it seems
Talking 'bout New Orleans
Yeah, yeah, yeah
