Charleston - James P. Johnson

Caroline, Caroline, At last they’ve got you on the map

With a new tune, a funny blue tune, with a peculiar snap!

You many not be able to buck and wing

Fox-trot, two-step, or even swing

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

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!