Jumpin' Jive Lyrics - Singles - Jackson Joe

(words and music by Cab Calloway, Fred Froeba and Jack Palmer) 

Boys - what you gonna say down there? 

Oh Boys - what you gonna say down there? 

Palamar, Shalamar, Swanny Shore 

Let me dig that jive once more 

Boys - take it right on down to the gator 

Oh boys - gotta take a side elevator 

Can't you hear those hip cats call 

Come on boys let's have a ball 

The jip-jam-jump is a jumpin' jive 

Makes you dig your jive on the mellow side 

The jip-jam-jump is a solid jive 

Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five 

Now, don't you be that ickeroo 

Get hip, come on and follow do 

When you get your steady fool 

You met your jump like the gators do 

The jip-jam-jump is a jumpin' jive 

Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side 

The jip-jam-jumpin' jive 

Makes you hip hip on the mellow side 

(instrumental break) 

The jip-jam-jump is a solid jive 

Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five 

The jip-jam-jumpin' jive 

Makes you hip hip on the mellow side 

Now, don't you be that ickeroo 

Get hip, come on and follow do 

When you get your steady fool 

You met your jump like the gators do 

The jip-jam-jump is a jumpin' jive 

Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side 

The jip-jam-jumpin' jive 

Makes you hip hip on the mellow side 

Skibbel-de-doo... 

Now I told you 'bout the jumpin' jive 

Jip-jam-jum the jumpin' jive 

I know you dug this mellow jive 

Cause you dig it on the mellow side