Cooder, Ry - Get Rhythm Lyrics






Get rhythm when you get the blues
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
Get a rock 'n' roll feelin' in your bones
Get taps on your toes and just get gone
Get rhythm when you get the blues

Little shoeshine boy never gets low down
But he's got the dirtiest job in town
Bendin' low at the peoples' feet
On the windy corner of the dirty street
Well, I asked him while he shined my shoes
How'd he keep from gettin' the blues
He grinned as he shook his little head
Popped a shoeshine rag and then he said

Get rhythm when you get the blues
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
It only costs a dime, just a nickel a shoe
Does a million dollars worth of good for you
Get rhythm when you get the blues

Well, I started to listen to the shoeshine boy
And I thought I was gonna jump for joy
Slapped on the shoe polish left and right
He took a shoeshine rag and he held it tight
He stopped once to wipe the sweat away
I said you're a mighty little boy to be a-workin' that way
He said "I like it", with a big wide grin
And he kept on poppin' and he said again

Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
Yes a jumpy rhythm makes you feel so fine
It shakes all the trouble from your worried mind
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get rhythm when you get the blues
Get a rock 'n' roll feelin' in your bones
Get taps on your toes and get gone
Get rhythm when you get the blues





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  1. R.... D....

    I had the good luck to see Ry several times. Some of the best were with just Ry and the other master guitar slinger Mr. Dave, David Lindley. Now I've played guitar for half my life. Pretty good too. But even with all the times, I've seen this guy, I don't have the faintest idea how the hell he does these things! That's why he is my absolute favorite., only he can do this stuff!!! I've watched him with field glasses and it is so far above me, I feel like an ant compared to this man. The guitar solo on this is so unbelievably fabulous it is transcendent. We may think we're cool, but we will NEVER be this cool!

  2. L.... H....

    Vibrato on the guitar playing sounds more like David Lindleys style.

  3. A.... R....

    I always thought Ry Cooder was a euphemism for a yeast infection.

  4. G.... P....

    Get rhythm when you get the blues
    Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
    Get a rock 'n' roll feelin' in your bones
    Get taps on your toes and just get gone
    Get rhythm when you get the blues



    Little shoeshine boy never gets low down
    But he's got the dirtiest job in town
    Bendin' low at the peoples' feet
    On the windy corner of the dirty street
    Well, I asked him while he shined my shoes
    How'd he keep from gettin' the blues
    He grinned as he shook his little head
    Popped a shoeshine rag and then he said
    Get rhythm when you get the blues
    Hey, get rhythm when you get the blues
    It only costs a dime, just a nickel a shoe
    Does a million dollars worth of good for you
    Get rhythm…



    Well, I started to listen to the shoeshine boy
    And I thought I was gonna jump for joy
    Slapped on the shoe polish left and right
    He took a shoeshine rag and he held it tight
    He stopped once to wipe the sweat away
    I said you're a mighty little boy to be a-workin' that way

    He said i like it with a big wide grin

    and he kept on poppin and he said it again


    get rhythn when you get the blues
    get rhythm when you get the blues
    well a jumpin rhythm makes you feel so fine
    chase all the troubles from your worried mind


    get rhythm





    Songwriters: Johnny Cash
    Get Rhythm lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc

  5. B.... M....

    All the people on the stage are world class including Harry Dean Stanton

  6. v.... c....

    3.57 of sheer genius.

  7. u.... l....

    Raise the dead Cooder at his finest. Wow. A million wows.

  8. L.... J....

    Gotta love it Always Ry !

  9. G.... D....

    ..love this music......

  10. A.... N....

    God, when music was good!

  11. Q.... ....

    master musicians and a super set of back up singers, utterly brilliant live too. Ry on a slide is a wonderful thing, his Film Soundtracks are haunting as well. and thanks Harry Dean Stanton

  12. J.... N....

    Ry's playing at his finest – but it's really Harry Dean Stanton who steals the show here. How he can get so much emotion and expression into such a small part... just proves what a fine actor he was.

  13. J.... G....

    One of my all time favorite music videos. This is so great on so many levels, Ry you da man! He is a musical genius, every strange alley he turns down has gold at the end of it. Check out his new album it is tremendous.

  14. V.... I....

    There is also the backing vocal by Larry Blackmon of Cameo, who i could almost swear i saw in a glimpse on the video...

  15. R.... K....

    AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  16. B.... M....

    Ry Cooder is a genius and just to make it completely unfair he gets an all world band together

  17. a.... ....

    I heard the original with Johnny Cash once. That's why I always play this with Ry Cooder!

  18. e.... s....

    I can't stop watching this.  Ry smoking, Harry Dean Stanton ultimate cool.  It sure does not get any better than this anywhere, anyway.

  19. o.... ....

    Perfect in every way. I heard it was directed by Wim Wenders

  20. p.... ....

    Best Music-video ever.

  21. B.... ....

    Celebration Of His Life Harry Dean Stanton

  22. r.... t....

    Oh Harry Dean S. Once reputed to be "the coolest man on the planet"...
    RIP

  23. A.... A....

    RIP Harry Dean Stanton, matre de of the most elegant club in the world :)

  24. t.... h....

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry_Cooder

  25. D.... ....

    RIP Harry Dean Stanton.!

  26. C.... ....

    RIP Harry Dean Stanton.

  27. r.... r....

    RIP Harry Dean Stanton

  28. D.... A....

    R.I.P. Harry Dean Stanton

  29. S.... F....

    RIP Harry . .. .

  30. G.... Z....

    On the August 2017 Guitar Player acoustic issue there was no mention of Ryland Peter Cooder. SAD!

  31. s.... ....

    Happy 70th Birthday Ry.

  32. h.... p....

    LOVE IT.

  33. R.... C....

    11 GIANT-STEPS BEYOND FANTASTIC !!

  34. a.... ....

    ..............Mondo Elegante..............

  35. A.... B....

    Wish it was better quality

  36. S.... S....

    Ry Cooder, the god of the slide guitar... I love him

  37. A.... M....

    Hear the same 3-friends vocals on "Little sister"!

  38. W.... ....

    Gotta love it. Jim Keltner on the drums, Flaco Jimenez on accordion, and Ry slidin' his ass off. Sweet!!!

  39. B.... C....

    3 people don't got no rhythm.

    B.... C....

    now 13 idiots

  40. D.... ....

    Ry Rockin, "The Man in Black."

  41. W.... J....

    What are you talking about Barry Shankman

    W.... J....

    @Will Johns I was wondering the same thing.

  42. B.... ....

    Harry as looked old 4 ever he asnt changed

  43. A.... B....

    Outstanding!!

    A.... B....

    Nice to see old Harry Dean Stanton, too!

  44. B.... ....

    17000 this should have 17000,000 hits ,classic

  45. J.... ....

    Harry Dean!

  46. K.... P....

    this is MUSIC not the crap on the radio ..

    K.... P....

    When we were living in the Netherlands in 1978, it got a lot of airplay and the video was shown frequently . I don't know that the Dutch or the Brits got all the ironies of the video, or even that it was a Johnny Cash song.

    K.... P....

    @Sally Claire Wentworth 1987 ? :)

    K.... P....

    @Sally Claire Wentworth Sally, yes the Dutch, Brits, Irish and Danes, etc. definitely "get all of the ironies" of the video. It's just us brain-dead yanks that don't cop-on!
    (so says one of HDS's fellow Kentuckians!)

  47. P.... ....

    still magic after all the time & space

  48. s.... ....

    This video produced by Michelle Manning, directed by David Fincher, cinematography by Jack Wallner, not sure who edited it.

  49. M.... ....

    Happy birthday Ry and many more :)

  50. B.... ....

    luv this version, Ry's guitaring is just brilliant.

  51. s.... ....

    Just brilliant!

  52. 2.... ....

    Love this vid. Ry and the boys at their best !