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?