by Barry Williams

Created on: December 18, 2009

Music command me

Courage make it be

To ask her to dance

And not miss my chance

To trip the light fantastic

And show her how elastic

I can be on the dance floor

Without being a bore

There I am  with her to ask

And prove that I am up to the task

Of  sweeping her off her feet

And  maybe romance should  our eyes meet

Laughing and dancing up a storm

Showing her my graceful form

Surely she can feel my heart implore

To dance with her  for evermore

Money on lessons was well spent

So glad that  I went

To dancing classes and charm school

So I can dance without feeling a fool

We must look so good doing the waltz

So be still my racing pulse

She is so lovely as we dance along

I could so easily break into song

Music maestro if you please

I can dance with practiced ease

Music stops just for a while

We look at each other and manage a smile

But wait next dance is called a Mazurka

Why does mazurka sound like berserker

I was expecting a lovely Tango

At this stage I would even accept a Fandango

My  Polish dance instructor now I could kill

Who said for the Mazurka I did not have the skill

To do it justice leave the dance alone

Calls for  it are rarely shown

Learn if you can all the modern dances

All the steps and all the prances

Of the Polka or  the  Quickstep

Good exercise to show your  style and pep

Out on the floor with the lovely girl

My mind racing in quite a whirl

How not to lose her and spoil her night

Perhaps I could just fluke the dance just  right

Needless to say it was quite a disaster

We both ended up being wrapped in plaster

She broke a leg and I broke an arm

Remarkably we both stayed calm

After that she became my wife

So I can dance with her for the rest of my life

Pity though about her limp

Just shows  that she is not a wimp

Oh how we danced on the night we were wed

We danced and we danced so it is said

' Cause the room had no bed

About the Mazurka though enough said

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