I've Shaken Everything I've Got 1920

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 June 2012
2012

Looky here boy
you say you're my daddy
what do you think I am
You promised that you
would love me true
but I find that
it's all a sham.
You coaxed me away
from my happy home
when you played
on your saxophone
for I thought that a kid
who played the way you did
was the man
that I'd like to own,
but your love was
on the instalment plan
a saxophone player
is a dangerous man:

I shook my fam'ly
when I ran away
on that afternoon in June.
I shook my shoulders
in a cabaret
to your crazy jazzband tune.
I shook my head at ev'ry guy
who'd try to make me prove untrue
but you couldn't appreciate
a girl like me
I caught you with another baby
on your knee
I've shaken ev'rything I've got
and now I'll shake you.

I shook my fam'ly
when I ran away
on that afternoon in June.
I shook my shoulders
in a cabaret
to your crazy jazzband tune.
I shook my head at ev'ry guy
who'd try to make me prove untrue
Tho' you told me a sealskin sack
I soon would own
The only sack I've seen
is that old saxophone
I've shaken ev'rything I've got
and now I'll shake you.

Music may sooth
the breast of the savage
that's what they always say
and wild women too
might fall for you
but you see
I'm not built that way.
You told me our union
would be complete
as you played me
your love sick song
and I loved ev'ry moan
from that old saxophone
but it seems
that I got you wrong,
All that union talk
was the gift of gab,
you're not in my union
you are just a scab:

I shook my fam'ly
when I ran away
on that afternoon in June.
I shook my shoulders
in a cabaret
to your crazy jazzband tune.
I shook my head at ev'ry guy
who'd try to make me prove untrue
but you couldn't appreciate
a girl like me
I caught you with another baby
on your knee
I've shaken ev'rything I've got
and now I'll shake you.

I shook my fam'ly
when I ran away
on that afternoon in June.
I shook my shoulders
in a cabaret
to your crazy jazzband tune.
I shook my head at ev'ry guy
who'd try to make me prove untrue
Tho' you told me a sealskin sack
I soon would own
The only sack I've seen
is that old saxophone
I've shaken ev'rything I've got
and now I'll shake you.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I've Shaken Everything I've Got 1920
from "Silks and Satins"
Music by Leon Rosebrook
Lyrics by Louis Weslyn
© MCMXX by Jerome H. Remick & Co. New York & Detroit
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 4 June 2012 at 17.04
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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