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BABY’S FIRST DANCE LESSON
© 8/16/05’ Cal
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She woke up one night from sleepin’
Two years old in fifty six
Her hands started clappin’
Feet 
were tappin’
Baby wasn’t fakin’
Her crib was a shakin’
cause
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chorus
Daddy loved to rock
Momma did the Stroll
T.V. set was tuned
To the Sullivan show
Daddy loved to rock
Momma did the Stroll
Baby got her first dance lesson
From the King of Rock and Roll
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The years flew by the kid turned thirteen
Made it on The American Bandstand show
The beat romanced her
How she loved to dance
Baby wasn’t fakin’
The floor was a shakin’
cause
chorus
The Stroll American Bandstand
Daddy loved to rock
Momma did the Stroll
T.V. set was tuned
To the Sullivan show
Daddy loved to rock
Momma did the Stroll
Baby got her first dance lesson
From the King of Rock and Roll
bridge
How she cried
On that sad and lonely August night
When she heard her old hound dog slipped away
Baby wasn’t fakin’
Her hips started shakin’
Thinkin’ bout those memories
Forever deep inside
When
chorus
Daddy loved to rock
When her momma loved to do the Stroll
When the TV set was on
Tuned to the Ed Sullivan show
When Daddy loved to rock
When her momma loved to do the Stroll
Baby got her first dance lesson
Baby got her first dance lesson
Baby got her first dance lesson
From The King of Rock and Roll
Baby got her first dance lesson
From the King of Rock and Roll
Baby got her first dance lesson
From The King of Rock and Roll
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Note:
Elvis became my first musical influence and rock & roll idol the when I saw his photo on the front page of the Detroit News in 1956. I was 6 years old. Elvis made his first appeaarance on the Ed Sullivan Show on September 9th 1956.
We were in the kitchen in my grandmother’s house in Hamtramch MI. When I saw his long sideburns on his photo in the paper, I exclaimed to my mother, uncle Richie and Babci “I want sideburns just like Elvis.” (bob’-chee’, is how we addressed our grandmother).
Later in life, I drove a Lorraine taxi cab in Dearborn MI (the Ford Motor town) in 1975 through 1977. I remember one night taking a middle aged woman to Olympia Stadium in Detroit. I asked her why she was so excited. She comment “Don’t you know, Elvis is playing. I wouldn’t miss this for anything. I ‘ve been following him for years!” As we got close to the stadium, I experienced the euphoria as I saw ELVIS PRESLEY lit up on the marquee on the building. The whole area was packed with cars, people and filled with excitement!
Pursuing my musical career I joined a show band who’s singer did a 1950’s oldies show, and an Elvis Presley tribute. While setting up my keyboard at a practice session one warm August evening, JD the singer came in and announced that Elvis had passed. That was August 16th 1977. Coincidently, if you look at the copyright date of this song lyric, ironically it is dated August 16th 2005.
The King still lives.
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