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 are 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 ll shake them away do like the voodoos do listening to a voodoo melody they shake their bodies so 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 em away