Quartette - A Christmas Waltz Lyrics

From the Album: I See A Star

A Christmas Waltz

Everyone says that Grandma can't dance,
She's too old and too fat so the grandchildren say.
She sits on the sidelines with the other old dames
sharing card games and gossip as the music plays.

But there was a time, long ago, far away,
When she was a beauty - the belle of the ball.
An old-fashioned waltz takes her back to the days
When her smile and her dancing would dazzle them all.

Then she closes her eyes - to the music she rises, A lovely young woman again, And she floats 'cross the floor like a feather in the arms Of all of those handsome young men, again....... Now everyone knows Grandpa was no dancer,
But they fell in love the first time they met.
She gave up the waltz and the dance floor forever
With never a sign of reproach or regret.

But Grandpa's been gone now for some twenty years,
And lately more often she turns to the past.
Though the children and grandchildren fill up her days,
At night when she comes to her pillow at last

Then she closes her eyes - to the music she rises, A lovely young woman again, And she floats Ôcross the floor like a feather in the arms Of all of those handsome young men, again...... It was only last night at the Christmas Soiree
An old man came up to her side with a bow,
And he asked her to dance as they had once before
On this very same night sixty odd years ago.

Now everyone one says that Grandma can't dance,
But there was the lie of it out in plain sight,
As she and her beau, arm in arm , took the floor
And gracefully danced the last waltz of the night .

See , she closes her eyes, to the music she rises, A lovely young woman again, And she floats 'cross the floor like a ship in full sail In the arms of a handsome old man, Yes she floats Ôcross the floor like a ship in full sail....... In the arms of a handsome old man.
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