PAPA, WON'T YOU DANCE WITH ME?
From the Broadway musical "High Button Shoes" (1947)
(Jule Styne / Sammy Cahn)

Nanette Fabray (Broadway Production) - 1947
Doris Day - 1947
Skitch Henderson & His Orch. (vocal: Nancy Reed) - 1947

Also recorded by: Myron Floren; Jimmy Sturr.


Papa won't you dance with me
Oh dance with me, please dance with me
Papa take a chance with me
And dance with me tonight

And when you whirl me
Round and round we'll go
Right off the ground we'll go
Around and round we'll go
We'll hear those trombones slidin' high
We'll both be glidin' high
Up in the sky, I love the polka

Papa won't you dance with me
Oh dance with me, please dance with me
When you hold me, hold me tight
Oh papa won't you dance with me tonight

(Orchestral Interlude)

Papa won't you dance with me
Oh dance with me, please dance with me
Papa take a chance with me
And dance with me tonight

And when you whirl me
Round and round we'll go
Right off the ground we'll go
Around and round we'll go
We'll hear those trombones slidin' high
We'll both be glidin' high
Up in the sky, I love the polka

Papa won't you dance with me
Oh dance with me, please dance with me
When you hold me, hold me tight
Oh papa won't you dance with me
Papa won't you dance with me
I said dance with me tonight.


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - January 2005)