NO DANCING
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NO DANCING
Elvis Costello
Oh, I km
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ow that she has made a f
A
ool of him,
Like girls have d
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one so many nights before,
Time and t
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ime again.
Life is so str
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ange. I don't know w
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hy,
But someb
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ody, somebody has to c
Gm
ry.
There's gonna be
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no dan
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cing when th
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ey get home
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.
There's gonna be
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no dan
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cing, no,
There's gonna be
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no dan
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cing,
There's gonna be
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no dan
A
cing when they get h
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ome.
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Now he's telling her ev'ry little thing he's done.
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks.
Now he's read ev'ry one.
He's such a drag. He's not insane.
It's just that ev'rybody has to feel his pain.
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home.
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He's getting down on his knees.
Dm
He finds that her b
Bb
rother's not so easy to please
Dm
, oh, oh.
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fter all, his nights were just a p
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aper striptease.
She's
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caught it like some disea
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se.
If he says
N.C.
no dancing, there's gonna be no dancing,
There's gonna be no
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danc
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ing on my
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own.
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She can't even speak to him. He can't face her now.
He says, "Even though I wanna shake your hand,
All I ever do is bow.
So now you see how it can be.
Why can't you give me ev'rything but sympathy?
There's gonna be
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no dan
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cing,
There's gonna be
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no dan
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cing,
There's gonna be
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no dan
F
cing,
There's gonna be
Bb
no dan
F
cing
There's gonna be
Bb
no dan
F
cing
There's gonna be
Bb
no dan
F
cing on my
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own.
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