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