Slap That Bass (from "Shall We Dance")

Slap That Bass - Fred Astaire

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World is in a mess

Politics and taxes and people grinding axes

There's no happiness

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Rhythm be your ale

Future doesn't upset me

If I can only get me

Someone to slap that bass

Happiness and not a little

When I'm listening to that big bass fiddle

Slap that bass slap it til it's dizzy

Slap that bass keep the rhythm busy

Zoom zoom zoom misery You've got to go

Misery you've got to go

Slap that bass use it like a tonic

Slap that bass keep your philharmonic

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These would be better off

If they zoomed-zoomed now and then

Today you can see that

The happiest men all got rhythm

In that case if you want to

Slap that bass slap away your troubles

Zoom zoom zoom slap that bass

I've got to got to got to

I've got to got to got to