A popular song from 1924
Words by Cecil Mack and Lew Brown
Music by Ford Dabney
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Happy Jack, known around the town
As “some” boot-black
Never worried tho’ he worked like sin
Had a grin guaranteed to bring the business in
Every day when they’d ask him
How he got that way
He would tell ’em “If you envy me
Just try my recipe
Chorus
Shine away your bluesies
Shine, start with your shoesies
Shine each place up, make it look like new
Shine your face up, wear a smile or two
Shine your these and thoseies
You’ll find that everything will turn out fine
Folks will shine up to ya
Everyone will howdy-do ya
You’ll make the whole world shine
- Rain or shine
He would say that things were goin’ fine
You could always see his smiling face
Same old place
Bein’ broke to him was no disgrace
What a mob
Hangin’ ’round to watch him on the job
Standin’ on the corner all day long
They’d listen to his song
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: