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While They Were Dancing Around

from The Grand St. Express by The Grand St. Stompers

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Johnny Brown went around to all the dances in town,
most every night or so;
Little Pearl was his girl and she could always be found,
wherever Johnny used to go.
Any night at all, at a dance or ball,
they were the first out in the hall:

Dancing around, they’d be dancing around;
oh how he’d hold her, head on his shoulder.
Oh how he’d tease, then he’d dip with his knees;
he’d trot her to a corner and he’d steal a little squeeze.
While they were dancing around, all around all around,
they were the talk of the town!
And when the band was playing that Hesitation,
you could hear her saying, “That’s some sensation,”
and the people would stay ’til the break of the day,
while they were dancing around!

Girls around in the town all loved to dance with young Brown,
but they all knew Miss Pearl;
she was there with a stare that said “go on if you dare!”
but you could hardly blame the girl.
On the floor she’d stay, dancing night and day,
just to keep them all away:

(repeat chorus)

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from The Grand St. Express, released October 1, 2011

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Gordon Au New York, New York

Called “comfortable in any idiom and fearless” by the press, Gordon plays and composes modern and trad jazz. He leads the Grand St. Stompers, called “a pillar of New York’s hot jazz scene” by the NYTimes, and appears with the Grammy-winning Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, the Armstrong Eternity Band at Birdland, Dandy Wellington, and others, and performs worldwide at festivals, dance events, & more. ... more

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