From the M-G-M film “EASTER PARADE,” 1948.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Sung and Danced by Ann Miller.
Written for “ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1927.”
Based on the 1927 original. Lyrics revised.
Copyright ©15 Aug 1927, renewed 1954.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
“Easter Parade,” 1948 cover only:
The sheet music (Standard Edition) with revised lyrics:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
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
Chorus:
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
Listening 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
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: