Don't Forget To Mess Around - Louis Armstrong Hot Five

Don’t forget to mess around when you’re doing the Charleston

Charleston!

First thing you do, now when you rear, way back

Say, you grab your gal, and then you clap your hands

And you do the Eagle Rock, but don’t you stop at all!

Uncle Jack, the dancing fool, he would never do the Charleston

Charleston!

When he learned of that brand new dance: such a prance

And he forgot his name, when he danced this brand new way

Then he yelled out, don’t forget to do your stuff

When you dance the mess around!