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