SHAKING THE BLUES AWAY
From the Broadway Revue "Gay Paree" (1926)
(Irving Berlin)
Ruth Etting (feat. in the Broadway revue "Ziegfeld Follies Of 1927") - 1927
Paul Whiteman & His Orch. (Instr.) - 1927
Harry Reser's Syncopators (vocal: Franklyn Baur) - 1927
Frank Farrel & His Greenwich Village Inn Orch. (vocal: Irving Kaufman) - 1927
Harry Reser's Dance Orch. (vocal: Tom Stacks) - 1927
Ben Selvin & His Orch. (vocal: Franklyn Baur) - 1927
Nat Shilkret & The Victor Orch. (Instr.) - 1927
Winegar's Penn Boys (Instr.) - 1927
The Ingenues (feat. in the short film "The Band Beautiful) - 1928
Ann Miller (feat. in the film "Easter Parade") - 1948
Doris Day (feat. in the film "Love Me Or Leave Me") - 1955
Dorothy Squires - 1971
Tony Bennett - 1987
Lora Lee Gayer (feat. in the Broadway Musical "Holiday Inn") - 2016
Also recorded by:
Vivian Blaine; Andrea Osborne; Joan Viskant & John Altman Orch.;
Rita Connolly; Claudia Morris.
As recorded by RUTH ETTING:
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 ev'ry 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 the revel and we'll shake off the Devil
And we'll shake all over God's heaven, heaven, heaven
Anyone objectin' to shakin' ain't goin' there, heaven, heaven
Gonna shake all over God's heaven
I gotta shake, you gotta shake
All God's chillun gotta shake, shake, shake
Nothin' 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 goin' there, heaven, heaven
Gonna shake all over God's heaven
Shaking, shaking the blues away
Unhappy, unhappy news away
If you are blue, it's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles
Telling, telling the blues to go
They may, 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 ev'ry shake, a lucky break
Proving, proving that there's a way
To chase, to chase your cares away
If you would lose your weary blues
Shake them away
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As recorded by DORIS DAY:
There's an old superstition way down south
Everybody believes that trouble won't stay
If you shake it away
When they hold a revival way down south
Everybody with care and trouble that day
Tries to shake it away
Shaking the blues away (Away)
Unhappy news away (Away)
If you are blue, it's easy to
Shake off your cares and troubles
Tellin' the blues to go (To go)
They may refuse to go (To go)
But as a rule, they'll go if you'll
Shake 'em away (Shake them away)
Do like the voodoos do
Listen to a voodoo melody
They shake their bodies so, to and fro
With every shake, a lucky break
Provin' that there's a way (A way)
To chase your cares away (Away)
If you would lose your weary blues
Shake 'em away
(Instrumental Break)
Shakin' the blues away (Away)
Unhappy news away (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 'em away)
Do like the voodoos do
Listen to a voodoo melody
They shake their bodies so, to and fro
With every shake, a lucky break
(With every shake, a lucky break)
Provin' that there's a way (A way)
To chase your cares away (Away)
If you would lose your weary blues
Shake 'em away (Shake those blues away)
Gotta chase those cares away
(Got to prove that there's a way)
I'm goin' to shake, shake those blues away
(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - April 2018)
