Hawketts – Mardi Gras Mambo lyrics

Mardi Gras Mambo 2: 13 Trk 7
(K. Elliott, L. Welch, F. Adams)
The Hawketts
Recorded: wwez Radio Studio, New Orleans, la.
1954. Producer/Dj, Ken Ellliott 'Jack The Cat'.
Chess Records single #7780. Musicians: A. Neville - keybrds
& vcl, J. Boudreaux - drums, A. August - gtr, G. Davis - alto
M. Bechamin - tenor., I. Bell & A. Fleuri - trmp, C. Joseph - trmbn.
Album: Mardi Gras in New Orleans (1987) mg1001.

(Uuh!)
Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat
To blow a horn
On Lasalle and Rampart Street
The combo's there with a mambo beat

The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, pambo, mambo, mambo
Mardi Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans

In Gert Town
Where the cats all meet
There's a Mardi Gras mambo
With a beat
Join the Chief with the Zulu gang
And truck on down
Where the mambo's swing

The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Pardi Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans

Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat
To blow a horn
On Lasalle and Rampart Street
The combo's there with a mambo beat

The Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans

[Chorus:]
Mardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Party Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Pardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo
Fades-
Pardi Gras, mambo, mambo, mambo.

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