I Won't Dance

(Dorothy Fields/Oscar Hammerstein II/Otto Harbach/Jerome Kern/Jimmy McHugh)



I won't dance, don't ask me

I won't dance, don't ask me

I won't dance monsieur with you

My heart won't let me feet do things they should do



You know what, you're handsome

You know what, too handsome

Oh but what you do to me

I'm like an ocean wave that's bumped on the shore

I feel so absolutely stumped on the floor



When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle

'Specially when you do The Continental

But this feeling isn't purely mental

For heaven rest us, I'm not asbestos

And that's why



I won't dance, why should I?

I won't dance, how could I?

I won't dance, merci beaucoup

I know that music leads the way to romance

So if you hold me in your arms I won't dance



When you dance, you're charming and you're gentle

'Specially when you do The Continental

But this feeling isn't purely mental

For heaven rest us, I'm not asbestos

And that's why



[in french]



Which means when I'm in your arms I won't dance