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The Varsity Drag

From the hit collegiate musical "Good News"

Words by Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown, Music by Ray Henderson - 1927

Verse:-----------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C7	-	-	-
Fm	-	-	-
G7	Ab7	A7	Bb7
C7	-	-	-
Fm	-	-	-
G7	Ab7	G7	Ab7  Eb  B  G7
Chorus:---------	------------------	------------------	------------------
C	C7	F	Fm
C	Cdim	G7	-
C	C7	F	Fm
C	Cdim      G7	C	B7
E	Am         E	Am         E	-         G7
C	Fm         C	F            C	G7
C	C7	F	Fm
C	Cdim      G7	C	-  (G7  to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

We've al -ways thought, know -ledge is naught; We should be taught to dance.

Right here at Tait, We're up to date; We teach a great new dance.

Don't think that I brag. I speak of the Drag.

Why should a Shiek learn how to speak Lat -in or Greek bad -ly?

Give him a neat mot -to com -plete, "Say it with feet glad -ly!"

First les -son right now; You'll love it and how you'll love it!

 

Chorus:

Here is the Drag, See how it goes. Down on the heels, up on the toes.

That's the way to do the Var -si -ty Drag.

Hot -ter than hot, New -er than new. Mean -er than mean, Blu -er than blue.

Gets as much ap -plause as wav -ing the Flag.

You can pass man -y a class, wheth -er your dumb or wise.

If you all an -swer the call, when your pro -fess -or cries: Ev -'ry -bo -dy

Down on the heels, up on the toes, Stay af -ter school, Learn how it goes.

Ev -'ry -bo -dy do the Var -si -ty Drag.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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