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