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 the 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 Oh, woah That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground Back on my stompin' ground 'Fesser longhair, Fats Domino Smiley Lewis to 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 Oh, woah 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 That's where it's going down Back on my stompin' ground 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 Calliope Project, Magnolia Saint Thomas, Pilot Land, Saint Bernard Melpomene, yeah, sometimes them streets was mean Can you dig? But that was my stompin' ground Where ya at Jack? --- Stompin' Ground - Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band