Dancing Song - Mr. Fox

I learnt to dance when I was a boy

And dancing was my only joy

I’ll still be dancing when you grow old

When the seas dry up and walls take fold

My father taught me how to dance

He said it was my only chance

To show the people how to be free —

An ordinary boy like me!

When the day came to go to school

The teacher took me for a fool

You should’ve heard the bugles roar

As I danced through the classroom door

But I didn’t cry, I didn’t fret

I told them stuff their alphabet

I packed my bags that very same night

And I took off in the morning light

I heard a commodore blow his horn

And saw I knew they’d been forewarned

Twisting and to stir the wheat

The grass sprang up beneath my feet

I knew the dance would help to show

The trees and flowers how to grow

So knowing I must never tire

I gave a yell that there took fire

One day I took it in me mind

The time had come for me to bind

So with me true love fair and wild

I hailed a toe right up the aisle

The people cheered, the thrushes drank

For miles around the church bells rang

The pub was closed and we were wed

So lost stop to our marriage bed

In time came children, one two three

They all looked like their mother and me

And through the hall and up the stairs

And up to bed to say their prayers

But they still lost that prize on Earth

They soon forgot those steps they learnt

My wife grew old, I knew the day

Had come for me to dance away

Over the mountains over the sea

Nothing on Earth could hold back me

So let me give you a word of warning

If you walk out on a bright spring morning:

Around the corner of the next street

You hear the sound of my dancing feet

Keep away, try not to hear

Whatever you do, don’t come too near

The dance may take you as it took me —

From lovers and friends and family