Talking 'bout New Orleans

How it all goes down

Sure ain't plain to see

Nobody knows for sure

How it all came to be

Oh, the laughin' faces

Behind a painted smile

Talk the talk of swing-bop

For the people dance its bastard child

Talking 'bout New Orleans

Nothing here is what it seems

Pass down a showbiz dream

Well we're talking 'bout New Orleans

Talking 'bout New Orleans

We've got to jump the way

They think we jump all day

We got to dance the dance, yeah

Just like 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, yeah

Talking 'bout New Orleans

Nothing's what it seems

Pass down the showbiz dream

Well I'm talking 'bout New Orleans