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Shake That Tambourine

(Bill Giant /Bernie Baum /Florence Kaye)


Copyright R & H Music Corp.

As sung by Elvis in the 1965 movie "Harum Scarum"


Soundtrack recording for MGM - Harum Scarum - February 24-26, March 9, 1965 - RCA's Studio B - Nashville

 February 24, 11:30 pm-3:30 am

SPA3 6752-sp - Splice of takes 24 and 38
October 1965 LP RCA LSP 3468 Harum Scarum
Outtakes:
Takes 7 (fs), 8, 10 (Incomplete), 16, 18 (fs), 19 (fs), 20 (fs) and 21: November 10, 2003 CD FTD 82876-53369-2 Harum Scarum





Shake... the little tambourine
Shake a-ring a jing -jing a-ling
Shake, shake my little dancin' queen
Shake that tambourine, that tambourine


I can hear them dancing, in the marketplace
Swishin' and a-swirlin', in their' silks and lace
Bracelets keep a-clinking, on their' tiny feet
And with their tambourines they keep the beat


*chorus
Rings on their fingers, bells on their toes
They make music, wherever they go
Pound that little drum now, tap on it with your thumb


**2nd chorus
Shake, shake the little tambourine
Shake a-ring a-jing-a-ling-a-ling
Shake,shake my little dancin' queen
...that tambourine, that tambourine


I heard their talent, open palace doors
Every night they're dancin', on those marble floors
Kings may bow before them, but they'll be my own
Then they'll shake their thing for me alone


Repeat first and second chorus
Repeat first and second chorus