Take a Step with Me



[Verse]
 * You see her ev'rywhere,
 * Petite and debonair,
 * She's only seventeen or so,
 * Her style is really comme il faut,
 * She seems to know just what to show,
 * And just how far to go.


 * She haunts the cabarets,
 * And all the gay cafès,
 * For she has caught the dancing craze,
 * And she has such entrancing ways,
 * But if you ask if you may call,
 * You have no chance at all!


 * For if a chap gets gay!
 * She'll laugh at him and say.

[Refrain]
 * "Take a step with me,
 * Any kind, I don't mind,
 * If you want to dance,
 * I will take a chance!


 * Slide, dip! I won't trip,
 * Are you there? There you are!
 * Take a step with me, but not a step too far!"

[Verse]
 * A certain married dame,
 * I will not give her name,
 * Is younger than her husband is,
 * Her tastes are livelier than his.
 * As dancing makes her figure trim,
 * She dances not with him!


 * One night she felt quite gay,
 * Took in a cabaret,
 * She found the dancing such good fun,
 * That as the clock was striking one,
 * In wine her sorrows she had drowned,
 * She still was whirling round!


 * A stalwart man in blue,
 * Touched her and said "Hey you!"

[Refrain]
 * "Take a step with me,
 * Any kind, I don't mind,
 * If you want to dance,
 * I will take a chance!


 * Slide, dip! I won't trip,
 * Are you there? There you are!
 * Take a step with me, but not a step too far!"