There's an old superstition way down south, everybody believes that trouble won't stay If you shake it away When they hold a revival way down south, everybody with care and trouble that day tries to shake it away Shaking the blues away, unhappy news away If you were blue it's easy to shake off your cares and troubles Telling the blues to go, they may refuse to go But as a rule they'll go if you shake them away Do like the voodoos do, listen to the voodoo melody They shake their body, soul to and fro With every shake, a lucky break Proving that there's a way to chase your cares away If you would lose your weary blues, shake them away Do like the voodoos do Do like the voodoos do Shaking the blues away, unhappy news away If you were blue it's easy to shake off your cares and troubles Telling the blues to go, they may refuse to go But as a rule they'll go if you shake them away Do like the voodoos do, listen to the voodoo melody They shake their body, soul to and fro With every shake, a lucky break Proving that there's a way to chase your cares away If you would lose your weary blues, shake them away Gotta chase those cares away A way to shake, shake your blues away *