There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

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A hot time in the old town (midi)

G – Em – G – G – D – G

G Em G

1. Come along, get ready, wear your brand new gown,

D G

’cause there’s gonna be a meeting in this good, good old town,

Em G

when you know everybody, and they all know you,

D G

and you get a rabbit’s foot to keep away them hoo-doos.

G

When you hear that the preaching has begun,

then they’ll know how to drive away your sin.

When you get religion, you will want to shout and sing

D D7 G D

there’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight, my baby.

G

When you hear them bells go ding-a-ling,

all join ’round and sweetly you must sing,

when the birds sound to and the chorus will all join in,

D D7 G

there’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight.

G – Em – G – G – D – G

G Em G

2. There’ll be girls for everybody in this good, good old town,

D G

with Miss Gonzola Davis and Miss Godula Brown.

G Em G

There’s Miss Henrietta Beezer an’ she’s all dressed in red.

D G

I just up and kissed her and to me then she said:

G

Oh please, oh please, oh do not let me fall,

you are mine and I love you best of all.

You’ll be my man, or I’ll have no man at all,

D D7 G

there’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight.

+ D + repeat last 4 lines

(Music by Joe Hayden, lyrics by: Theo. A. Metz, 1896)