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 playin' with a mambo beat

The Mardi Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)
Party Gras Mambo (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
They shout to 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)
Party 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 playin' with a mambo beat

The Mardi Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)
Party Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)
Party Gras Mambo-ooh
Down in New Orleans

Mardi Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)
Party Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)
Party Gras Mambo (mambo, mambo)

© 1954 The Hawketts