Come Dancing
Jeff Beck

When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a Porkie Pig hat on
A bright star
In a dark age
When the bandstands had a thousand ways
Of refusing a black man admission
Black musician
In those days they put him in an
Underdog position
Cellars and chitlins'

When Lester took him a wife
Arm and arm went black and white
And some saw red
And drove them from their hotel bed
Love is never easy
It's short of the hope we have for happiness
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy street!
Now we are black and white
Embracing out in the lunatic New York night
It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town
Or be hung in a tree
That's unlikely!

Tonight these crowds
Are happy and loud
Children are up dancing in the streets
In the sticky middle of the night
Summer serenade
Of taxi horns and fun arcades
Where right or wrong
Under neon
Every feeling goes on!
For you and me
The sidewalk is a history book
And a circus
Dangerous clowns
Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
They have been handed
Day by day
Generations on down

We came up from the subway
On the music midnight makes
To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone
In taxi horns and brakes
Now Charlie's down in Mexico
With the healers
So the sidewalk leads us with music
To two little dancers
Dancing outside a black bar
There's a sign up on the awning
It says Pork Pie Hat Bar
And there's black babies dancing
Tonight


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  (Remember) Walking In The Sand   A Day In The House   A Day In The Life   Above the Clouds   Above the Clouds   Above the Clouds [DVD]   Air Blower   All Shook Up   Ambitious   Angel (Footsteps)   Apache [Instrumental] [Instrumental]   Baby Blue   Back In The Neighbourhood   Back on the Streets   Blackbird   Blast from the East   Blues De Luxe   Blues de Luxe [Take 1][*]   Blues Deluxe   Blues Deluxe [Take 1]   Blues Stay Away From Me   Brush with the Blues   Bye Bye Blues   Catman   Cause We've Ended As Lovers   Count To Ten   Crazy Legs   Crimson Curtain [Edit of Take 1 & Insert][Edit][In...   Crossroads   Cruisin'   Cry Me A River   Cry Me a River [Live]   Double Talkin' Baby   Double Talkin' Baby   Drinking Again   Driving   Early In The Morning   Earthquake   Ecstasy   Elegy For Dunkirk   Evil Hearted You   For Your Love   Full Moon Boogie   Further on up the Road   Get To The Bottom   Get Workin'   Gets Us All In The End   Girl from Mill Valley   Glad All Over   Goin' Down   Goin' Down   Going Down   Going Down [Live][#]   Goodbye Pork Pie Hat   Got The Feeling   Grease Monkey   Greensleeves   Guitar Shop   Hammerhead   Happenings Ten Years Time Ago   Haunted   Heart Full of Soul   Heart Full of Soul [Single Version]   Hi Ho Silver Lining   Hi-Ho Silver Lining   Highways   Hot Rod Honeymoon   How High the Moon   I Ain't Superstitious   I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You   I Put A Spell On You   I Want to Know What Love Is   I'm A Fool To Care   I'm Sitting On Top Of The World   I've Been Drinking   I've Been Used   I've Been Used   I’m A Man   Ice Cream Cakes   Jailhouse Rock   Jeff's Boogie   Jeff's One   Jeff’s Blues   Jody   Lawdy Miss Clawdy [Live]   Led Boots   Let Me Love You   Like the Sun (From Out of Nowhere)   Lilac Wine   Line Dancing with Monkeys   London In The Rain   Lotta Lovin'   Lotta Lovin'   Love Is Blue   Love Is Blue [*]   Mná Na Héireann [Instrumental]   Mockin' Bird Hill   Morning Dew   My Girl Sloopy   My Thing   Nadia   Nadia (The River)   Nervous   Nessun Dorma   Never Alone   Never Going Home   New Orleans   New Ways Train Train   New York City Blues [Stereo Mix][#]   Night After Night   Nighthawks   O.I.L.   O.I.L. (Can't Get Enough of That Sticky)   Ol' Man River   Over the Rainbow   Over Under Sideways Down   Over, Under, Sideways, Down   Parallel Lines   Pay Me No Mind (Remix)   People Get Ready   Peter Gunn   Pink Thunderbird   Plan B   Please Mr. Jailer   Please Mr.Jailer   Plynth (Water Down the Drain)   Pork-U-Pine   Pounds and Stomps [Instrumental]   Race With The Devil   Rice Pudding   Rock My Plimsoul   Rock My Plimsoul [Stereo Mix]   Rock My Plimsoul [Stereo Mix][*]   Rollin' And Tumblin'   Rollin' And Tumblin'   Say Mama   Scared for the Children   Scatterbrain   Scatterbrain [DVD]   Seasons   Shape Of Things   Shapes of Things   Shapes of Things [*]   Shapes of Things [Double-Tracked Vocal][Version]   Shapes of Things [Single Version With Double-Track...   Short Business   Shrine   Sitting on Top of the World   Situation   Sleep Walk   Sleep Walk [Instrumental] [Instrumental]   Soap Opera   Someone to Love   Someone to Love (Instrumental) [Instrumental]   Someone to Love [Master][Instrumental]   Someone to Love, Pt. 1   Somewhere Over The Rainbow   Space Boogie   Spanish Boots   Still Got A Lot To Learn   Still I’m Sad   Stop, Look and Listen   Sugar Cane   Superstition   Suspension   Sweet Little Angel   Tallyman   The Revolution Will Be Televised   The Hangman's Knee   The Train Kept A Rollin'   The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise   There s No Other Me   Thursday   Tiger Rag   Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You   Trouble In Mind   Twenty Flight Rock   Vaya Con Dios   What   What Do You Want   What Do You Want [Take 4 - Instrumental Master][In...   What Do You Want [Take 4][Instrumental]   What Do You Want? (Instrumental) [Instrumental]   Who Slapped John?   Wild Thing   Woman Love   You Better Believe   You Know What I Mean   You Shook Me   You Shook Me [Take 1]   You Shook Me [Take One][*]

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