I've Danced To Beat The Band 1919 'The Velvet Lady'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 06 Mar 2006
2006

[Ned:] Now, though I may be
young in years,
[Girls:] You are! You are!
[Ned:] I've tried to see
what seemed to be worth knowing;
[Girls:] Well?
[Ned:] And I will make confession, dears,
[Girls:] Oh yes! Confess!
[Ned:] That I have had a "go"
at all that's "going..."

I have danced to beat the band,
to all those old melodious strains;
with the girls of ev'ry land
I've wriggled round and done steps,
those tangoes, trots and onesteps.
But I'm through at last.
altho' the time I had was grand!
With little slanteyes girls in far Cathay;
with dainty dolls from Paris and Broadway;
and yet the "piper"
I shall never pay,
because I danced to beat the band!

I have danced to beat the band,
to all those old melodious strains;
with the girls of ev'ry land
I've wriggled round and done steps,
those tangoes, trots and onesteps.
But I'm through at last.
altho' the time I had was grand!
With little slanteyes girls in far Cathay;
with dainty dolls from Paris and Broadway;
and yet the "piper"
I shall never pay,
because I danced to beat the band!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I've Danced To Beat The Band 1919
from "The Velvet Lady" - 1919
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Henry Blossom
© MCMXIX by M. Witmark & Sons
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 06 March 2006 at 12.58
in association with Doug Grierson
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