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Coney Island Washboard
Music by Hampton Durand and Jerry Adams, Words by Ned Nestor and Aude Shugart - 1926
Verse:----------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
C          Cdim Ab7 C         G7 C          G7
C          Cdim Ab7 C         G7 C          G7
Edim Dm A7 Dm
D7 - G7        Dm G7
Chorus:---------- ------------------ ------------------ ------------------
C - A7 -
D7 - - -
G7 - C A7
D7 - G7 -
C - A7 -           D7
- - - -
Ab7 - C         E7 Edim  A7
D7 G7 C   (G7 to chorus)
8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.
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Verse:
Down by the beach lived the sweet -est lit -tle peach,
And I must say she just had the cu -test way,
Play -ing a chord up -on a wash -board.
The folks would gath -er rown', from ev' -ry -where in town, just to hear her play.
 
Chorus:
On her Con -ey Is -land wash -board she would play
You could hear her on the board -walk ev' -ry day
Soap suds all a -round, bub -bles on the ground
Rub -a -dub -a -dub in her lit -tle tub All her tunes she found
Thim -bles on her fing -ers made the noise
She played "Charles -ton" with the laun -dry for the boys
She could rag a tune right thru' the knees of your brand new silk B. V. D.'s
With her Con -ey Is -land wash -board round -e -lay.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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