Key: A major
Verse 1
F#
It's time to play...
B
Get rhythm, when you get the blues
F#
B
Come on, get rhythm,
when you get the blues
F#
You get a rock 'n 'roll
feelin' in your bones
My taps on your toes, and get goin'
B
C#
Get rhythm, when you get the blues
F#
Verse 2
little shoeshine boy,
D
he never gets slowed down
Verse 3
F#
D
F#
D
D#
He's got the dirtiest job in town
F#
Bending
Verse 4
D
low at the feeble speed
Verse 5
D
F#
On a windy corner of a dirty street
Verse 6
F#
D
Well, I asked him when he
shined my shoes
Verse 7
D
F#
How do you keep from get
D
ting the blues?
Verse 8
D
F#
D
Guffed his grin, his little head,
F#
B
F#
he popped a shoeshine rag
Verse 9
F#
And then he said, get rhythm
Verse 10
F#
When you get the blues,
B
come on, get rhythm
Verse 11
B
F#
When you get the blues
Yes, the jumpy rhythm
makes you feel so fine
It'll shake all the trouble
from your worried mind
B
Get rid of
C#
When you get the blues
F#
B
C#
F#
B
F#
B
Take it, I said
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
B
F#
Get rhythm, when you get the blues
B
Come on, get rhythm,
when you get the blues
F#
B
F#
Get a rock and roll feeling in your bones
B
The taps on your toes,
F#
B
they're gonna get rhythm
C#
F#
When you get the blues
I sat down and listened to the shoe shine boy
I thought I was gonna jump for joy
D
Slapped on shoe parts left and right
He took the shoe shine rag
F#
and he held it tight
He stopped once to wipe the sweat away
D
Said you're a mighty little boy
to be working that way
F#
He said I liked it with a big wide grin
He said he popped and popped
and he said again and again
When you get the blues
B
F#
B
Come on, get rhythm
F#
When you get the blues
Get a rock and roll feeling in your bones
Put taps on your toes
B
Get going, get rhythm
C#
When you get the blues
Outro 1
F#
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