Key: D major
Intro 1
Ab
Eb
Ab
E
Eb
E
D#
E
Eb
E
Eb
I've seen for days that
Verse 1
Ab
you've got some ways that must be checked
E
Eb
Db
the slightest signs of intellect
Eb
E
You're mad on chances,
Eb
Gm
Eb
think of the chances you neg lect
E
Dbm
Eb
Gm
G
You nev er seem inclined
Gm
Eb
to use your mind,
Gm
Eb
and it's quite plain to see
Dbm
Eb
Abm
Dbm
Eb
F
that I'm the brains of the fam ily.
Bb
Eb
Gm
Eb
E
Take a lesson from me.
Eb
Ab
I'd rather Charleston. Charleston.
Eb
E
Think of what you might be.
Ab
Eb
Bb
Eb
E
I'd rather Charleston. Charleston.
Gm
Ab
C#
C#m
Gm
I'm disappointed in
C#m
D#
Gm
D#
you and your ways.
I'm double -jointed,
Gm
D#
there's no sensation like syn chronation
D#
E
D#
I'd rather Charleston Charleston?
D#
E
G#
E
So, just leave it behind
D#
E
D#
C#m
an d give your mind to something new
F#
D#
G#m
I'd rather Charleston
E
D#
E
Oh Charleston with you
will be giving me a pain
G#m
G#
G#m
D#
You just repeat that same refrain
You use your feet and not
E
D#
Something's got you,
I don't know what you hope to gain
it's not much fun
D#
Gm
To have a sister who's got her brain
D#
A#
in her dancing shoes
D#
F#
D#
So take a lesson from me
I'd rather Charleston Charleston?
When you're older you'll see
C#m
D#
I'd rather Charleston Charleston?
D#
Gm
A great improvement I
looked for in you
C#m
D#
I like this movement
A
D#
Gm
It makes you plastic, just like plastic
I'd rather Charleston
Oh, no, that's the sort
of thing silly people do.
G#
D#
Say, haven't you read what Lincoln
said in sixty -two?
D#
E#
Yeah! Well, what'd he say?
E
D#
D#
E
G#
G#
Not me.
Bye for now.
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ChordsAb Eb E D# Db...
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