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 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 'em 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
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 'em away
