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Teach me to dance like Grandma

from This Year of Grace

 

Verse           I'm getting tired of jazz tunes
                   Monotonous,
                   They've gotten us
                   Crazy now.
                   Though they're amusing as tunes
                   Music has gone somehow.
                   I hear the moaning
                   Groaning
                   Of a saxophone band,
                   It simply shakes me,
                   Makes me
                   Want to play a
                   Lone hand.
                   Please understand
                   I want an age that has tunes
                   Simple and slow,
                   I'm feeling so
                   Lazy now.
 
Refrain        Teach me to dance like Grandma used to dance,
                   I refuse to dance-Blues.
                   Black Bottoms, Charlestons, what wind blew them in,
                   Monkeys do them in zoos.
                   Back in the past the dancing signified
                   Just a dignified glow.
                   They didn't have to be so strong
                   Though they revolved the whole night long.
                   Teach me to dance like Grandma used to dance
                   Sixty summers ago!
 
 
 
 

Noël Coward

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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