Woody Guthrie - DANCE A LITTLE LONGER lyrics

Eats an’ drinks an’ smokes are gone,

Ice on th’steps an’ you cain’t git home;

Hang y’r things on th’ peg in th’ corner;

Giggle an’ wiggle an’ dance a little longer.

Dance aroun’, dance a little longer,

Just gotta hold you just a little longer;

Bing an’ talk, joke a little longer;

Just gotta hold you justa little longer.

Rained three days an’ th’ barditch full;

I cain’t git home, it’sa muddy old pull;

I live on toppa that bad hill yonder

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.

Tonight’s th’ night that th’ muddy flood come,

Took my house and it tooken my barn;

Drowned my goose an’ drowned my gander,

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.

Lightnin’ sat my place onne fire

Thunder shook down my floorin’ boards;

Wild wind come along end it stole my lumber;

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.

I tied my ship to a downtock dock

Tidal wave run in an’ give it a knock;

It wrecked my boat an’ shivvered my timbers;

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.

I tied my bicycle up to a post

An’ it got stole by a graveyard ghost;

He wont bring it back till you kiss my stronger;

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.

I hadda date tonight witha gal down th’ road,

Told ‘er I’d stop off an’ dump my load;

She’s pretty pretty, but you’re lots perttyooee;

That’s why I gotta dance a little longer.