Charleston 1923

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 25 Apr 2007
2007

Carolina, Carolina,
at last they've got you on the map,
with a new tune, funny blue tune,
with a peculiar snap!
You may not be able to buck or wing,
foxtrot, two step, or even sing,
if you ain't got religion in your feet,
you can do this prance
and do it neat.

Charleston! Charleston!
made in Carolina,
some dance, some prance,
I'll say
there's nothing finer than the
Charleston! Charleston!
Lord how you can shuffle,
ev'ry step you do,
leads to something new,
Man I'm telling you,
it's a lapozoo,
Buck dance, Wing dance,
will be a back number
but the Charleston!
the new Charleston!
that dance is surely a comer
Some time, you'll dance it one time,
the dance called the Charleston!
made in South Caroline.

Charleston! Charleston!
made in Carolina,
some dance, some prance,
I'll say
there's nothing finer than the
Charleston! Charleston!
Lord how you can shuffle,
ev'ry step you do,
leads to something new,
Man I'm telling you,
it's a lapozoo,
Buck dance, Wing dance,
will be a back number
but the Charleston!
the new Charleston!
that dance is surely a comer
Some time, you'll dance it one time,
the dance called the Charleston!
made in South Caroline.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Charleston 1923
Words & Music by Cecil Mack & Jimmy Johnson
© MCMXXIII by Harms Inc. N.Y.
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The Charleston reached the UK in 1927 when Annette Mills
gave the first demonstration of the dance in London. She went
on to write quite a lot of wartime songs and wound up
as a Children's Presenter of a show called
"Muffin The Mule" which many of us saw in the early days
of Television.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 25 April 2007 at 12.49pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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