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 and voodoo queens

From the heart of Louisiana

Marie Laveaux and Mojo Hannah

I grew up on the music of the streets

Second line bands and the Indian beats

Ooh, woah-oh

That's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

Back on my stompin' ground

'Fesser longhair, Fats Domino

From Smiley Lewis, to the Great Satchmo

From the Wild Tchoupitoulas to the creole Wild West

You know that neither tribe didn't take no mess

From way up town in the Thirteenth Ward

The Crescent City was my backyard

With Mac Rebennack, and Scarface John

Hung in the Dew Drop all night long

Ooh, woah-oh

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

Mole Face and Melvin, Billy Beat the World

Trecherous Slim, Secondline Black

Big Chief Jolly and Ratty Chin

Apache Red, Brother Jake

Stackalee, James Booker

Marvin and Johnny, Art the Mighty Row

Hornman, Jabby, Izzy Koo, yeah

It's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

It's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

(Back on my)

It's where it's going down

Back on my stompin' ground

Back on my stompin' ground

Calliope Project, Magnolia

St. Thomas, Pilot Land, St. Bernard

Melpomene, yeah

Sometimes them streets was mean

Can you dig?

But that was my stompin' ground

Where ya at, Jack?