| Lyrics: | There's an old superstition 'way down south
Ev'ry darkie believes that trouble won't
stay
If you shake it away
When they hold a revival way down south
Ev'ry 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 darkies do, list'ning to a preacher way down
south
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
I gotta blues, you gotta blues
All God's chillun
gotta blues
Come and join a rebel and we'll shake off the devil
And we'll shake all over
God's Heaven, Heaven, Heaven
Anyone objectin' to shakin' ain't going there, Heaven,
Heaven
Gonna shake all over God's Heaven
I gotta shake, you gotta shake
All God's
chillun gotta shake, shake, shake
Nothing could be sweeter than to shake with Saint
Peter
When we shake all over God's Heaven, Heaven, Heaven
Anyone objectin' to shakin'
ain't going there, Heaven, Heaven
Gonna shake all over God's Heaven
[Revised
version:]
There's an old superstition 'way down south
Ev'rybody believes that trouble
won't stay
If you shake it away
When they hold a revival way down south
Ev'rybody
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 'em away |
