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'Taint No Sin

(To Dance Around In Your Bones)

Words by Walter Donaldson, Music by Edgar Leslie - 1929

Verse:
G               Em7	Am7           D7	G              Em7	Am7           D7
G               Em7	Am7           D7	G              Em7	Am7           D7
G               Em7	Am7           D7	G              Em7	Am7           D7
G               Em7	Am7           D7	G	G7
Chorus:
Am            Am7	B7            Bdim	E7	A7
D7	-	Dm7           G7	C
Am            Am7	B7            Bdim	E7	A7
D7	-	Dm7           G7	C
Em	C7	Em	C7
G               D7	G               D7	G               Eb7	G7
Am           Am7	B7           Bdim	E7	A7
D7	-	Dm7           G7	C          (repeat)

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

Verse is in the key of G, chorus is in the key of C.

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Verse:

Dancing may do this and that, And help you take off lots of fat,

But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot!

So if you are a dancing fool, Who loves to dance but can't keep cool,

Bear in mind the idea that I've got.

 

Chorus:

When it gets too hot for comfort, And you can't get icecream cones,

'Tain't No Sin, to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.

When the lazy syncopation of the music softly moans,

'Tain't No Sin, to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.

The Polar Bears aren't green up in Greenland, They've got the right idea.

They think it's great to refrigerate while we all cremate down here.

Just be like those Bamboo Babies, In the South Sea tropic zones,

'Tain't No Sin to take off your skin, And dance around in your bones.

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Performer Links:

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Listen to The Natural Gas Jazz Band perform "'Tain't No Sin" (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com