I Would Like to Dance - Janis Ian

Look at me I would like to dance

But I haven’t the clothes for romance

So I’ll stay with the boys in the band

I would like to be cool

Like the ladies who drool as they advance

But I can’t get my feet

To go where I lead with my toes

At the debutante’s ball everybody does all they can do to enhance

Every corset in town in a gown made specially in France

And the men here can tell at a glance

I would like to maintain

but it sure seems a shame to sit on my hands

And I only got into the swim

by the seat of my pants

Not another woman in the world

Who could make a living

Pitching the light fandango

dancing on the streets of the city

Look at me, playing freelance at the ball

Catch my entrance to the hall

Far from the gilded lily

Look at me would you like to dance

I’ve a book illustrating the stance

And I can’t get my head

To go where I lead

With my toes

I feel solo