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Refrain Lyrics by Rough Trade

1977

Dance dance, dance dance, dance dance
Dance dance, dance dance, dance dance

Slide and dip to the right
Fred and Ginger did it tight
A thousand blondes, dancing in throngs
Mr. Busby Berkeley, they obey

Refrain, every one of those films had it
Haunting, you can't drive it away

Boogie to a shuffle beat
Conga, Continental
Miranda is alive
During the Blitz
The brothers Ritz
Tap-danced all those V-2s away
In the mood, in the groove
A thousand saxes tеar your guts astray

Refrain, it's a ritual as old as time
Primitive mating of body and mind

Black boys in iridеscent suits
Scream the blues their way, their way

Refrain, it's that Africano beat
Fill you with that Latin American heat
That teasing, pleasing, it does to your brain
Refrain, refrain

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dancy dance
Refrain it can send you to another astral plain
Everybody's felt it

Stroll on down the floor
Hand jive momma, give me more
Every night at the discotheques
Brightly dressed the dancers spin away
Every night that hypnotic beat
Calls out to those idle feet obey, obey!
I said refrain! Refrain, obey
Come on!

Dance dance, dance dance, dance dance
Dance dance, dance dance, dance dance

About “Refrain” by Rough Trade

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