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I fell
in love with a dancer, dancer
Little and pretty and sweet,
Little as she was my dancer
Simply swept me off my feet
I never have been a romancer
Never thought that I'd ever fall
But now I'm in love with a dancer, dancer
Now I'm in love with it all
She
taught me an old tarantella, tella
Such as they dance them in Italy, Italy
Skipped like a pretty gazelle, a gazelle
And, oh, she danced so prettily, wittily
Head over heels for a dancer,
Took a chance, and didn't I fall?
If ever you feel as a mortal man, sir,
You'd love a dancer and all.
And
we danced and we danced;
We danced until the dew began to fall
Head over heels for a dancer
While the nightingalers call
If ever you feel as a mortal man, sir,
You'd love a dancer and all
Teach
me the way of the dance, my dancer
Tell me the tread of it, please
But never a word for an answer
Off she pranced among the trees
While
I followed on with me fumble-and-stumble
And bumbled as best as I could
Tumbling over the roots in my boots
In pursuit of the girl in the wood…
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And
we danced and we danced
We danced 'til the dewy nighttime fell, well,
Trip tarantella my ballerina
Tangle me into your spell
I'm telling you fellas if you'd have seen her
You'd love a dancer as well…
Little
by little I learnt the dance
As little by little she led
Little by little she led me on
Though little enough was said
She led me a merry old dance
Beyond the branches up to the hill
And there in the heather we came together
And make out of that what you will
We
danced and we danced
We danced 'til the cock began to cock-a-doodle-doo
Head over heels for a dancer,
And we danced the whole night through
What Adam and Eve and the snake began, sir
Me and the dancer did too
Trip
tarantella, my ballerina
Tangle me into your spell
I'm telling you fellows if you'd have seen her
You'd love a dancer as well
Head
over heels for a dancer
While the nightingalers call
If ever you feel as a mortal man, sir
You'd love a dancer
You'd love a dancer
You'd love a dancer and all.
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