Dance In The Shadows - Tom Paxton

Back in the trees, where I learned to say «Please»

Where I begged for a taste from the table

She made me know there was need to go slow

When she taught me to dance in the shadows

Where were my hands that were mine to command?

Now they seemed to be somewhere in China

She brought them back, God bless her for that!

When she taught me to dance in the shadows

Oh, she could have laughed at me;

oh, she could have left me for dead

What did I know?

Less than nothing;

so I listened and did as she said

And back in the grass I heard the moon pass

I listened to stars spreading rumours

With dawn coming fast, I murmured «At last»

«she had taught me to dance in the shadows.»