There's mosquitoes on the river   Fish are rising up like birds   It's been hot for seven weeks now   Too hot to even speak now      Did you hear what I just heard?   Say, it might have been a fiddle or it could have been the wind   But there seems to be a beat, now I can feel it my feet now   Listen, here it comes again      There's a band out on the highway   They're high steppin' into town   It's a rainbow full of sound   It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns      Everybody dancin'   C'mon children, c'mon children   Come on, clap your hands      Sun went down in honey and the moon came up in wine   You know stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord   The band kept us too busy, we forgot about the time      They're a band beyond description   Like Jehovah's favorite choir   People joining hand in hand   While the music played the band, Lord   They're setting us on fire      Crazy rooster crowin' midnight   Balls of lightin' roll along   Old men sing about their dreams   Women laugh and children scream   And the band keeps playin' on      Keep on dancin' through the daylight   Greet the mornin' air with song   No one's noticed, but the band's all pack and gone   Was it ever there at all?      But they keep on dancin'   C'mon children, c'mon children, come on, clap your hands   Well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday   And the corn's a bumper crop      And the fields are full of dancin'   Full of singin' and romancin'   The music never stopped