[Verse 1]
Come along, get ready, wear your bran', bran' new gown
For there's going to be a meeting in this good, good old town
Where you know everybody, and they all know you
And you get a rabbit foot to keep away them hoo-doo

[Chorus]
When you hear that the preachin' does begin
Bend down low for to drive away your sin
When you get religion, you wanna shout and sing
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
My baby, when you hear them bells go ding-a-ling
All join around and sweetly you must sing
When the verse am through, and the chorus all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight

[Trumpet Solo]

[Verse 2]
There'll be girls for ev'ry body in this good, good old town
There's Miss Consola Davis, and there's Miss Gonzula Brown
There's Miss Henrietta Pisa, and she's all dressed in red
I just hugged and kissed her, and to me then she said

[Chorus]
"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"
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight
My baby, when you hear them bells go ding-a-ling
All join around and sweetly you must sing
When the verse am through in the chorus we'll all join in
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight