Karaoké When Daddy Danced Jimmy Buckley

Well my daddy couldn't play an instrument and he couldn't sing a note

But what he could do with music never could be wrote

After the work on a Saturday

All he needed was the chance

He'd get Ma and all us kids together and head for the country dance

He'd do-si-do and kick up his heels when they'd play the Chicken Reel

He'd whirl and jump and really pranced

It was somethin' to see when my daddy danced

His tired old frame would straighten like he never had a care

And the years just seemed to fall away when music filled the air

And the other couples young and old stood aside and clapped their hands

And they even had to change fiddlers to keep up when Daddy danced

Fire on the Mountain or the Kelly Waltz

Fast or slow

It didn't matter at all

Foxtrot or the Sugar-Foot Rag

It was somethin' to see when my daddy danced

Wooh

Yee hoo

Mama said when they were courtin' he was the handsomest man around

And no one could hold a candle to Pa when the couples circled 'round

Durin' the week he was just a farmer

Didn't look like a man of romance

We could see everything

Mama saw in him when Daddy began to dance

Down Yonder, Cotton-Eyed Joe

So fast it'd burn the fiddler's bow

The young men didn't have a chance

It was somethin' to see when my daddy danced

Down Yonder, Cotton-Eyed Joe

So fast it'd burn the fiddler's bow

The young men didn't have a chance

It was somethin' to see when my daddy danced

Grab your partners two by two

Hey Mery Lu I'm lookin' at you

Yeehaw

Wooh

Wooh wooh wooh wooh wooh wooh

Hah

Woohoo

Hang her home Johnny