These lyrics are from the sheet music at Tulane University:


THE NEW ORLEANS HOP SCOP BLUES
Words and music by George W. Thomas
New Orleans: George W. Thomas Music Publishing House, ©1916.

Old New Orleans is a
Great big old southern town,
Where hospitality
You will surely find.
The population there
Is very very fair.
With ev'rything they do
They all seem to be true.
The blues they have down there
Surely is something rare there.

Now listen: they sound so good to you
It will make you dance the Hop Scop Blues.
The girls in New Orleans
Just simply are a dream.
They all are southern raised.
You got to give them praise.
They have a dance that's late.
They sure are up to date.
Now honey, you see them colored folks going to that big old Lincoln,
What I mean, that big old Lincoln Park.
They dance the Hop Scop Blues.
They are the best old blues.
The white folks dance them too,
Out at the Spanish fort.
They even dance these blues
Down on the old Sidney boat.

CHORUS: Right here you glide, slide, dance, prance,
Hop, stop, um, um.
I can never get tired
Dancing them Hop Scop Blues, {girls/boys},
Once more you slide, glide, prance, dance.
The Hop Scop Blues will make
You do a lovely shake.
It makes you feel so grand
When you join hand and hand
Dancing them Hop Scop Blues
Down in old New Orleans town.

[There was an early recording of this by Bessie Smith, but she omitted most of the lyrics, beginning the chorus after line 10. Another version was sung by Sara Martin. Early instrumental versions were recorded by Jimmy Noone, Clarence Williams, and Sidney Bechet.

These other artists made early recordings, but I haven't heard them and so can't say whether they contain vocals: Louis Armstrong with Perry Bradford's Jazz Phools; Richard M. Jones Jazzmen.

There were later vocal recordings by Dave Van Ronk, Maria Muldaur, Bobby Short, and a few others.

"Hop scop" seems to be an old term for a children's game, and it may be related to "hopscotch" or "hop, skip and jump."