Oh I can't sit down
Got to keep a-goin'
like de flowin' of a song
Oh I can't sit down
Guess I'll take my honey
an' her sunny smile along
Today I is gay an' I's free
Jes' a-bubblin'
nothin' troublin' me
Oh I's gwine to town
I can't sit down
Happy feelin'
in my bones a-stealin'
No concealin' dat
it's picnic day
Sho's is dandy
got de licker handy
Me an' Mandy
we is on de way
'Cause dis is picnic day
Oh I can't sit down
Got to keep a-jumpin'
to de thumpin' of de drum
Oh I can't sit down
Full of locomotion
like an ocean full of rum
Today I is gay an' I's free
Jes' a-bubblin'
nothin' troublin' me
Oh I's gwine to town
I can't jes' can't sit down