New York Medley Noël Coward

Let our affair be a gay thing
And when these hours have flown
Then, without forgetting happiness that is past
There'll be no regretting fun that didn't quite last
Let's look on love as a plaything
All these sweet moments we've known
Mustn't be degraded
When the thrill of them has faded
Let's say goodbye and leave it alone

Teach me to dance
Like grandma used to dance
I refuse to dance—
Blues
Blackbottoms, Charlestons—what wind blew them in?
Monkeys do them in
Zoos
Back in the past the dancing singified
Just a dignified
Glow
They didn't have to be so strong
Though they revolved the whole night long
Teach me to dance like grandma used to dance
Sixty summers ago

We were dancing
And the gods must have found it entrancing
For they smiled
On a moment undefiled
By the care and woe that mortals know—
We were dancing
And the music and lights were enhancing our desire
When the world caught on fire
She and I were dancing