Shaking The Blues Away 1927 Berlin

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 4 May 2009
2009

There's an old superstition way down south
Every darkie believes that trouble won't stay
If you shake it away
When they hold a revival way down south
Every darkie with care and trouble that day
Tries to shake it away

Shaking the blues away
Unhappy news away
If you are blue
It's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles

Telling the blues to go
They may refuse to go
But as a rule
They'll go if you'll
Shake them away

Do like the voodoos do
List'ning to
a voodoo melody.
They shake their bodies so
To and fro
With every shake
A lucky break

Proving that there's a way
To chase your cares away
If you would lose
Your weary blues
Shake them away

Shaking the blues away
Unhappy news away
If you are blue
It's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles

Telling the blues to go
They may refuse to go
But as a rule
They'll go if you'll
Shake them away

Do like the voodoos do
List'ning to
a voodoo melody.
They shake their bodies so
To and fro
With every shake
A lucky break

Proving that there's a way
To chase your cares away
If you would lose
Your weary blues
Shake them away..

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Shaking The Blues Away 1927 Berlin
by Irving Berlin
© 1927 by Irving Berlin
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from "The Ziegfeld Follies 1927"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 4 May 2009 at 18.40
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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