HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SWINGING

(Harry and Sandy Berkowitz)



Come all you dancers far and near

And hear my plight so stinging

I'm doomed to roam from dance to dance

I cannot keep from swinging.



My eyes can't see, my feet are sore

My clothes from sweat are wringing

The band begins. I can't ignore

How can I keep from swinging



The music starts, the room's a blur

And everything is spinning;

I know not how, I know not why

But I cannot keep from swinging



Through Soldier's Joy and Saint Anne's reel

Through Devil's Dream and Lancers

I dance and dance the whole night through

And never find the answers



No matter what the caller calls

It never makes me nervish

For on my right I see the smile

Of another whirling dervish



To kiss the one in my embrace

It takes the strength of horses

My osculation is undone

By cen-tri-fu-gal forces



And when my bones shall turn to dust

And all this flesh shall wither

A dizzy ghost shall haunt these halls

Still in a spinning dither



And if this fate I'm to avoid

And keep my ship from sinking

I'll make a change e'er all is lost

I think I'll take up drinking.



@parody @dance

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