Come Dancing. The Kinks.

Seq - Ron Tilden. Kar - Bunty Pritchard Jones. Oct 2002.

Come Dancing
Words and Music by: Ray Davies
Performed by: The Kinks (1983)
Sequenced by: Ron Tilden

They put a parking lot on a piece of land
Where the supermarket used to stand.

Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local palais.

That's where the big bands used to come and play.
My sister went there on a Saturday.

Come dancing,
All her boyfriends used to come and call.
Why not come dancing, it's only natural?

[Music Interlude]

Another Saturday, another date.
She would be ready but she'd always make them wait.

In the hallway, in anticipation,
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration.

He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

Come dancing,
That's how they did it when I was just a kid,

And when they said come dancing,
My sister always did.

[Music Interlude]

My sister should have come in at midnight,
And my Mum would always sit up and wait.

It always ended up in a big row
When my sister used to get home late.

[Spoken]Out of my window I can see them in the moonlight,
Two silhouettes saying goodnight by the garden gate.]

The day they knocked down the palais
My sister stood and cried.

The day they knocked down the palais
Part of my childhood died, just died.

[Music Interlude]

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band,
And there's a carpark where the palais used to stand.

My sister's married and she lives on an estate.
Her daughters go out, now it's her turn to wait.

She knows they get away with things she never could,
But if I asked her I wonder if she would,

Come dancing,
Come on sister, have yourself a ball.

Don't be afraid to come dancing,
It's only natural.

[Music Interlude]

Come dancing,
Just like the palais on a Saturday.

And all your friends will come dancing
While the big bands used to play.

[Musical Ending]

Come Dancing
Soft karaoke
Words
Melody
Voices
Vibes
Horns
Piano
Guitar (Distorted)
Guitar (Clean)
Guitar (Steel)
Strings
Bass
Drums