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Dance Little Lady

from This Year of Glance

 

 

Verse           Though you're only seventeen
                   Far too much of life you've seen,
                   Syncopated child.
                   Maybe if you only knew
                   Where your path was leading to
                   You'd become less wild.
                   But I know it's vain
                   Trying to explain
                   While there's this insane
                   Music in your brain.
 
Refrain        Dance, dance, dance little lady,
                   Youth is fleeting-to the rhythm beating
                   In your mind.
                   Dance, dance, dance little lady,
                   So obsessed with second best,
                   No rest you'll ever find,
                   Time and tide and trouble
                   Never, never wait.
                   Let the cauldron bubble
                   Justify your fate.
                   Dance, dance, dance little lady,
                   Leave tomorrow behind.
 
Patter           When the saxophone
                   Gives a wicked moan,
                   Charleston hey hey,
                   Rhythms fall and rise,
                   Start dancing to the tune,
                   The band's crooning-
                   For soon
                   The night will be gone,
                   Start swaying like a reed
                   Without heeding
                   The speed
                   That hurries you on.
                   Nigger melodies
                   Syncopate your nerves
                   Till your body curves
                   Drooping-stooping,
                   Laughter some day dies
                   And when the lights are starting to gutter
                   Dawn through the shutter
                   Shows you're living in a world of lies.
 
 
 
 
 

Noël Coward

 
 
Dance Poetry
A comprehensive anthology
Edited by Alkis Raftis
Copyright 2012

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