This is a song I haven’t really thought about since the 70s, but it turned up when I started to (try to) rationalize my boxes and folders of lyrics, verse and prose, so I put it straight down as-is.
Backup:
Between the bar and the dance floor / Thinking that maybe
I might just catch up / To my accelerated lady
Why don’t you keep on dancing? / Dance on by
Watching you at a party / Too drunk to see
What it might take / To make you come and talk to me
But you’d better keep on dancing / Dance on by
What makes you think / I should apologise
For once drowning / In those bedroom eyes
Why don’t you keep on dancing? / Dance on by
Lights run hot / But the bottle’s not yet dry
With a little luck and whisky I’ll forget / even your name by midnight
Better keep on dancing / Dance on By
David Harley
Wheal Alice Music 