Soft Shoe Song

SOFT SHOE SONG (The Dance My Darlin’ Used To Do)
By: Roy Jordan & Sid Bass
Tony Martin
Key: G

 -4  4   4*  -5   6   -6*
Give me that old soft shoe
6  -5   -4   5*  -8   -7
I said that old soft shoe
6   7  6  -6* 6   7   7   7
Ah-one ah-two ah-doo-dle-dee
 7   7   6  -6*
doo-dle-dee doo
 -4  5   5*  -5   6   -6*
Play me that old soft shoe
 6   -5*  6   -8   8   -9
And noth-ing else will do
  -5   -5*   6   -5* 6   -6   -6* -5 7
That’s the dance Bo-jan-gles used to do
 -8    -7*   -8   -7* -8
We’ll sing love’s re-frain
  7    -7 -7* -8 -7   7    -6
(just like a vau-de-ville team)
 -7    7*  -7     7*    -7
Dance the whole night through
 7  -7  -8  8   -8  -7   7
(do-ing the cu-test rou-tine)
  8*    8   8*  8    8*
Stroll-ing lov-er’s lane
  -7   -8    8    8*  -8 -7   7
(just like we’re play-ing a scene)
 -7   -9  8*  8    7*
We’ll har-mo-nize and 
-8  -7   7   7   7   6  -6*
doo-dle-dee doo-dle-dee doo

 -4  4   4*  -5   6    -6*
Give me that old soft shoe
6  -5   -4   5*  -8   -7
I said that old soft shoe
6   7  6  -6* 6   7   7   7
Ah-one ah-two ah-doo-dle-dee
 7  -6*  6  -6*
doo-dle-dee doo
 -4  4   4*  -5   6    -6*
Play me that old soft shoe
 6  -5*   6   -8   8   -9
And noth-ing else will do
  -5   -5*   6   -5* 6   -6   -6* -8 7
That’s the dance Bo-jan-gles used to do

REPEAT & end with

 6  -5*   6   -6   -6*  6   -6*
Lead-er, play the song and dance
-5  7  -7 -8  -8   6
I love to do  The old
  8*  8*   8* 8  8*   8   8*
(I’m talk-ing a-bout the old)
 -6*   8   8    8 -8  8   -8   -8    7
Soft (I’m talk-ing a-bout the soft) Shoe 

(Slap leg 1/8 note triplet then 
2 dotted 1/8 notes then 1/4 note)
-6*   7
Soft shoe