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 darkies do

Listening 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