[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]
Hop Scop Blues
a 1916 popular song
words and music by George W. Thomas
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
Old New Orleans is a great big old Southern town
Where hospitality you will surely find
The population there is very very fair
With everything they do they all seem to be true
The blues they have down there, surely is something rare there
Now listen they sound so good to you
It will make you dance the hop scop blues
The girls in New Orleans, just simply are a dream
They all are Southern raised, you got to give them praise
They have a dance that’s late, they sure are up-to-date
Now honey, you see them colored Folks
Going to that big old Lincoln
What I mean that big old Lincoln Park
They dance the Hop Scop Blues, they are the best old blues
The whi’ folks dance them, too, out at the Spanish Fort
They even dance these blues down on the old Sidney Boat
Right here you
Chorus
Glide, slide, dance, prance, Hop, stop, um, um
I can never get tired dancing them Hop Scop Blues Girls
Once more you slide, glide, prance, dance
The Hop Scop blues will make, you do a lovely shake
It makes you feel so grand, when you join hand and hand
Dancing them Hop Scop Blues down in New Orleans Town
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Sung here by Fred Feild: