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ENGLISH BELLOWS
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Saturday night and your bored with the telly
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I’ll tell you where you can swing some jelly
C                                                                                    G        C     
Not a bar or a pub or a club at all - hop on down to the village hall
C                    G           C                    G
You will be in ecstasy - never need to drop an e
C                  Dm               D                     G
Not from the garage it’s a sound from the grave….
C                                                                                                        G
Get up on the floor be a man or a mouse and dance to the English country
C
House
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-It’s never funky
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Its never boogie
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And moreover - its never bossa nova
C
C’mon mum and dad and the girls and the fellows
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and dance up and down to the English bellows
C’mon mum and dad and the girls and the fellows
and dance up and down to the English bellows
 
It’s not like the fiddle or the banjo when you pick it
It’s more like a game of English cricket
Not too fast and not too slow as round and round the floor you go
The caller shouts a lot - the drummer (gives it) all he’s got 
Not very cool but the kids are on the floor….
Don’t salsa or twist or jive to Bill Haley
Dance to the sound of an English ceilidh…..
 
-It’s never funky etc
 
The bellows are made from leather and card
to push them in is not that hard
But when you pull em out Mr Hohner I quote:
“I made it play a different note”
Take your choice from just two keys go and give the box a squeeze
Treble and bass one each side
The sound that it makes is reedy and wheezy
But the honking sound makes dancing easy
 
-It’s never funky etc
 
Lets have a thrash through Roger De Coverley
Get on the floor its really lovely
Don’t be a wallflower don’t be a shy one wear your sandals and a shirt of nylon
Dance away to Astley’s ride you can join a Morris side
Do a cool southern hop step too
You’ll run around you’ll sweat plenty - dancing to the beat of 1820
 
-It’s never funky etc   

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