Chords for Ruth Etting - Shaking The Blues Away 1927 - Irving Berlin Songs

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_ [Bb] _ _ _ There's an old [Eb] superstition way down [Bb] south Every darkie [F] believes that trouble won't [Gm] stay _
_ [Gb] If [Bb] you shake it away _ [Ebm] _
_ _ [Bb] _ When they hold a revival [Eb] way down south
[Bb] Every darkie with care and trouble [D] that _ [G] day [C] Fights to shake [Bb] it _ away
[F] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [A] Shaking the [Bb] blues away _ [F] _ Unhappy news away
_ _ If you are blue it's [Cm] easy to [Bb] shake off your [Ab] care [Gb] and [F] trouble
_ [Bb] _ Telling the [F] blues to go _ They may refuse to go
[C] _
But as a rule of go [F] If you shake [Bb] them [Bbm] away
_ [Bb] _ Do [D] like [Gb] you do [D] Listening to [Gm] a preacher way down south
[Bm] They shake [Gm] their bodies so To and fro [A] _ with [F] every shake
[Bb] A lucky break proving [G] that there's [Bb] a way _ [F] To chase your cares away
[Bb] _ _ If [F] you would lose your weary blues [Bb] Shake them [Ebm] away
[Bb] _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] I [B] got a [Cm] blues You [Eb] got a blues
[Cm] All [Eb] God's children got a [Bb] blues _ _ Come and [Eb] join the [Ab] revel
And we'll shake [Bb] off the devil [Eb] And we'll shake all [Bb] [Eb] over _ _ _ [Bb] God's heaven
_ _ _ [Ebm] Heaven [Eb] to _ _ _ _ _ [Ab]
shake it [Bb] ain't going [Eb] there Heaven _
[Bb] _ Heaven _ gonna shake [D] all over [Eb] God's heaven
_ _ I [B] got a [Cm] shake You [Bbm] got a [Cm] shake
All [Eb] God's children got a shake, shake, shake
Nothing could be sweeter [Ab] than to shake with [Bb] St.
Peter
[Eb] When we shake [D] all over [Cm] God's heaven
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[Eb] Heaven, _ heaven
[Bb] _ _
[Eb] Anyone objecting to [Ab] shaking [Bb] ain't going [Eb] there Heaven
_ _ [Bb] Heaven _ [Ebm] gonna shake [Ab] all [F] over God's [E] heaven
[F] _ _ _ _ _ Shaking, [Bb]
shaking the blues [Cm] away [D] _ [F] Unhappy, unhappy [C] news away
If you are blue it's easy to shake off your [Bb] cares and _ [G] troubles
_ [F] Telling, [Bb] telling the blues to go [D] They may, [F] they may refuse to go
But as a rule of go If you shake [Bb] them [Gb] away _
[Bb] _ [Db] Do [D] like you _ _ _ do Listening to a [Gb] preacher [Bb] way down [E] south
They shake their bodies so [C] To and [F] fro with every shake
[Bb] A lucky break [F] proving, [Bb] proving that there's a way
[D] To [F] chase, to chase your [C] cares away
If you would lose your weary blues Shake them away
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