| There’s an old superstition 'way down south
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| Everybody believes that trouble won’t stay
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| If you shake it away
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| When they hold a revival way down south
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| Everybody with care and trouble that day
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| Tries to shake it away
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| Shaking the blues away, unhappy news away
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| If you are blue, it’s easy to
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| Shake off your cares and troubles
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| Telling the blues to go, they may refuse to go
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| But as a rule, they’ll go if you’ll
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| Shake them away
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| Do like the voodoos do, listening to a voodoo melody
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| They shake their bodies so, to and fro
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| With every shake, a lucky break
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| Proving that there’s a way to chase your cares away
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| If you would lose your weary blues
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| Shake 'em away |