Jumpin' Jive

(Album: Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive - 1981)

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 jumping 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 jumping jive
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side
The jip-jam-jumping jive
Makes you hip hip on the mellow side

The jip-jam-jump is a solid jive
Makes you nine foot tall when you're four foot five
The jip-jam-jumping 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 jumping jive
Makes you like your eggs on the Jersey side
The jip-jam-jumping jive
Makes you hip hip on the mellow side

Skibbel-de-doo...
Now I told you 'bout the jumping jive
Jip-jam-jum the jumping jive
I know you dug this mellow jive
'Cause you dig it on the mellow side