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Thread #16827   Message #1279517
Posted By: Jim Dixon
23-Sep-04 - 09:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords: Coney Island Washboard
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD ROUNDELAY
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CONEY ISLAND WASHBOARD ROUNDELAY
Nestor / Shugart / Durand / Adams 1926

(G) Down by the (Eb) beach there's the (G) cutest (D7) little (G) peach
And I must (Eb) say she (G) has the (D7) cutest (G) way
(E7) Playing a chord up-(Am)on her washboard
(A7) Folks would gather 'round (A7) from everywhere in town
(D7) Just to hear that sound! On a...

(G) Coney Island washboard she would (E7) play,
You could (A7) hear her on the boardwalk every day
(D7) Soapsuds all around, (G) bubbles on the (E7) ground
(A7) Rub a dub a dub in her little tub (D7) all those tunes she found
(G) Thimbles on her fingers made a (E7) noise
She played (A7) Charleston on the laundry for the boys
She could (C) rag a tune right (C#o) through the knees
Of a (G) brand new pair of (E7) BVDs,
(A7) Coney Island (D7) Washboard rounde-(G)lay

BVDs=brand of underwear
Roundelay=rondelet: a short rounded rondel, usually of five or seven lines in one stanza and a refrain consisting of the opening words.