Lyrics

NOBODY WALTZES

VS
I spent a summer with my Grandma and my first guitar,
And I butchered the Beatles and Stones.
Grandma said, Boy, when you're through making noise,
Let me teach you my favorite song.
She played this old record, cranked up her hi-fi,
And danced close to Grandpa in three-quarter time.

CH
They don't know nobody waltzes,
They don't know the beat now goes one, two, three, four.
They float 'round the room singing Always,
Nobody else on the floor,
'Cause nobody waltzes no more.

VS
When Grandpa got older he walked with a cane,
Not much giddy-up left in his knees.
But he never let on when they played Grandma's song,
He'd say Miss, may I have this dance please?
At my kid sister's wedding, only they knew the steps,
Wrapped up in each other like two newlyweds.

CH
They don't know nobody waltzes,
They're back at that USO dance in the war.
They float 'round the room singing Always,
Nobody else on the floor,
'Cause nobody waltzes no more.

BR
And that's when it hit me, why they waltzed all those years,
They look at each other, and the world disappears.
She's his Ginger Rogers, he's her Fred Astaire--

CH
No, they don't know nobody waltzes,
A romance like that, that's what I'm looking for.
Just me and my girl dancing always,
Nobody else on the floor.
But the old-fashioned kind, she's so hard to find,
'Cause nobody waltzes no more.