Coney Island Washboard 2 Verses (C)
Music by Hampton Durand and Jerry Adams
Key: C
Lyrics by Ned Nestor and Claude Shugart
Copyright 1926

Lyrics and chords provided by Judy Muldawer
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File Created 11/22/2014
File Edited 10/14/2022

Verse 1:

C           Ab7
Down by the beach
          C        G7     C     G7
Lived the sweetest little peach,
C          Ab7
And I must say
         C       G7     C
She just had the cutest way,

Edim      Dm
Playing a chord
   A7        Dm
Up-on a wash board.
D7
Folks would gather round
From everywhere in town why
G7      Gdim     G7
just to hear her play.

Chorus:

       C                                A7
On her Coney Island washboard she would  play
          D7
You could  hear her on the boardwalk ev'ry day
G7
 Soap suds all around,
       C         Cmaj7  A7
Little  bub-bles on the ground
D7
Rub a dub a dub in her little tub
G7      Gdim      G7
All her tunes she found

C                                A7
Thimbles on her fingers made the noise
           D7
She played  Charleston on the laundry for the boys
          Ab7
She could  rag a tune right thru the knees
        C          Cmaj7A7
Of your  brand new silk B. V. D.s
         D7
With her Coney Island
G7              C   CdimG7
Washboard ronde-lay.

Verse 2:

C        Ab7
You neverheard
        C          G7     C    G7
Sweeter notes from a song-bird
C           Ab7
Can't get e-nough
          C    G7       C
When this baby does her stuff

Edim         Dm
She croons a-long
    A7          Dm
Whenshe plays a song
D7
She's more than wonderful
And more than marvelous
G7       Gdim     G7
She just can't go wrong

Chorus Repeat:

End tag:

D7           G7             C   G7C
Coney island washboard rond elay

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