These words are from the sheet music at the University of Maine:


CHARLESTON
From the musical production “Runnin’ Wild”
Words and music by Cecil Mack & Jimmy Johnson*, 1923.

Carolina, Carolina, at last they’ve got you on the map
With a new tune, funny blue tune, with a peculiar snap!
You may not be able to buck or wing,
Foxtrot, two-step, or even sing.
If you ain’t got religion in your feet,
You can do this prance 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 lapazoo.**
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.


* Wikipedia identifies him as James P. Johnson.
** I figure “lapazoo” must be related to “lalapalooza.”