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