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Thread #88212 Message #1652720
Posted By: Snuffy
21-Jan-06 - 08:42 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Charleston (Made in South Caroline)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Charleston (Made in South Caroline)
As I remember it from a Temperance Seven single (ca 1961?) it had an introductory verse:
Carolina, Carolina, At last you're on the map. With a new tune, funny blue tune, With a peculiar snap. You may not be able to buck a wing. Foxtrot, two-step or even swing. You don't bop[?] religion in your feet But you can do this dance, and do it neat:
Charleston, Charleston, made in Carolina Some dance, some prance, I'll say there's nothing finer Than the Charleston, Charleston, Lord how you can shuffle Ev'ry step you do leads to something new, Man I'm telling you, it's a laugh to do. Buck dance, wing dance, will be a back number, But the Charleston, the new Charleston, That dance is surely a comer, Sometime, you'll dance it one time, The dance called the Charleston, Made in South Caroline.