Take A Step With Me 1906 'The Laughing Husband'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 04 Mar 2005

You see her everywhere,
petite and debonair,
she's only seventeen or so,
her style is really comme il faut,
she seems to know just what to show,
and just how far to go.
She haunts the cabarets,
and all the gay cafés,
for she has caught the dancing craze,
and she has such entrancing ways.
But if you ask if you may call,
you have no chance at all!
For if a chap gets gay!
She'll laugh at him and say.

Take a step with me, any kind,
I don't mind, If you want to dance,
I will take a chance!
Slide, dip! I won't trip.
Are you there?
There you are!
Take a step with me,
but not a step too far!

Take a step with me, come along,
you're in wrong!
Take a ride with me,
in my private car!
I've a place for you
when you're there.
There you are!
Take a step with me,
you're gone a step too far!

A certain married dame,
I will not give her name,
is younger than her husband is,
her tastes are livelier than his
as dancing makes her figure trim,
she dances not with him!
One night she felt quite gay,
took in a cabaret,
she found the dancing such good fun,
that as the clock was striking one,
in wine her sorrows she had drowned,
she still was whirling round!
A stalwart man in blue,
touched her and said: "Hey you!"

Take a step with me, any kind,
I don't mind, If you want to dance,
I will take a chance!
Slide, dip! I won't trip.
Are you there?
There you are!
Take a step with me,
but not a step too far!

Take a step with me, come along,
you're in wrong!
Take a ride with me,
in my private car!
I've a place for you
when you're there.
There you are!
Take a step with me,
you're gone a step too far!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Take A Step With Me 1906 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Harry B. Smith
from "The Laughing Husband"
© MCMVI by Chappell & Co., London
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 04 March 2005 at 22.43
in association with Doug Grierson
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