Come Dancing
Kast Off Kinks

at Dutch Kinks Preservation Society fan meeting in.Muziekpodium ESTRADO Harderwijk 23/9 2012

Estrado is a new and up-and-coming music centre. A great venue with excellent acoustics. In Estrado you also can find 'Het Vinylarchief' that still has a lot of vinyl, besides cd's and dvd's.

This year the theme of the day is 'EVERYBODY'S IN SHOW-BIZ' (EVERYBODY'S A STAR), a reference to the same-titled Kinks album that was released 40 years ago (1st of September 1972). Most well known Kinksclassic of this album is Celluloid Heroes, but this record contains many more 'Davies jewels'.


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Come Dancing

Written by: Ray Davies
Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

Lyrics:

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?

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

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.

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.

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band,
And there's a car park 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.

Come dancing,
Just like the palais on a Saturday.
And all your friends would come dancing
While the big bands used to play.

00098.MTS

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