Lyr Req: 'Tain't No Sin (to take off your skin...

Subject: Skeleton song lyrics
From: DonMeixner
Date: 22 Nov 99 - 11:12 PM

I need the lyrics to the song with the refrain line.

"It ain't no sin to jump out of your skin

and dance around in your bones."

Can anyone help with this tune?

Don

Subject: Add: TAIN'T NO SIN (TO DANCE AROUND IN YOUR BONES)
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Nov 99 - 08:02 AM

"Tain't No Sin" to click here

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Tain't No Sin (To Dance Around in Your Bones)
Words by Edgar Leslie, Music by Walter Donaldson

Verse: Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off lots of fat.
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot.
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
Bear in mind the idea that I've got.

Chorus: When it gets too hot for comfort, and you can't get ice cream cones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
When the lazy syncopation of the music softly moans,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
The polar bears aren't green up in Greenland, they've got the right idea.
They think it's great to refrigerate while we all cremate down here.
Just be like those Bamboo Babies, in the South Sea tropic zones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.

Band takes two choruses

Verse 1: Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off excess fat.
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot. No I'm not.
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
Bear in mind this idea that I've got.

Chorus: When you're calling up your sweetie in those hot house telephones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
When you're on a crowded dance floor, near those red hot saxophones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
Just take a look at the girls while they're dancing. Notice the way that they're dressed.
They wear silken clothes without any hose and nobody knows the rest.
If a gal wears X-ray dresses, and shows everything she owns,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin… Band phrase Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:17 AM

I have a MIDI. Can someone work on it to extract the melody for inclusion here?

~S~

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:19 AM

send it to me !

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:26 PM

There's another by Tom Waites on the Black Rider album. Words by William Burroughs.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:34 PM

So what songs did Red Skelton Sing?

Lumpy Diaperbrains

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:43 PM

A skeleton goes into a bar and orders a beer and a mop. (Dah dump)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Skeleton song lyrics
From: open mike
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 12:51 AM

this song is on Hot Soup Trio's cd On Stage
http://www.hotsouptrio.com/

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Tain't No Sin (to take off your skin...
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 03:36 PM

Lee Morse sings this additional chorus:

Now we are gathered by the river; listen to your Deacon Jones.
'Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
You must all go in that water; let me hear your sinful groans.
'Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
Do what I say right away, wicked sinners, for this is your judgment day.
Come, Mandy Lee, in the river with me; wash your sins away.
Throw away your gin and razors; throw away your gamblin' bones.
'Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Tain't No Sin (to take off your skin...
From: GUEST,Rahere
Date: 20 Nov 14 - 04:12 PM

Must be why that tune talks about dry bones...