Stompin' Ground

I was born in the southern land

That's where I became a man

My roots was down in New Orleans

The birth of jazz voodoo queens

From the heart of Louisiana

Marie Laveaux, and Mojo Hannah

Grew up on the music of the streets

Second line bands and the Indian beats

That's where it's going down

Back on my Stompin' ground

'Fesser Longhair, Fats Dominos

From Smiley Lewis to the Great Satchmo

From the wild Tchoupatoulas

To the creole Wild West

Neither tribe didn't take no mess

From way up town in the Thirteenth ward

The Crescent city was my back yard

With Mac Rebennack and Scarface John

Hung in the Dew Drop all night long

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

Back on my stompin' ground

Way down yonder in New Orleans

The land of them creole queens

I sure love this southern town

It got me through a lot of ups and downs

Times were bad and times were good

I owe it all to my neighborhood

From the ninth ward, to way uptown

Every block was my stompin' grounds

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

Mole face and Melvin, billy beat the world

Trecherous slim, secondline black

Big chief jolly, ratty chin

Brother Jake, Apache red

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

Collapse project, magnolia

St. Thomas, pilot land, St Bernard

Melpomene-yeah

Sometimes them street was mean

Can ya dig

But was that my stompin' ground

Where y'all, Jack?