Key: G major
Verse 1
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I used
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to know a ballerina
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She could dance from her head to her toes
could love you long
Sometimes we whispered each
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other's name out loud
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She said I could never be
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Tired of being anybody's fool
In the evening when the night
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s got cool
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She turned from me to another man,
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who said devoted she must be
her accepting that,
was to follow every order she
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would speak
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sampled every song and every taste
But he would do the dancing
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in her place
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why don't you dance with me?
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when you were all I liked
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They moved to some pleasant town
doing tax accounts
She dances when the weekends
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come around
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I saw the ballerina in a dream last night,
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a butterfly who folded up her wings
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she was crying for so many things
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Well, ballerina,
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Ballerina, darling, can't you see
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alive
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Everybody said she seemed to fly
she reached for somebody
Who'd keep on telling her
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those lies
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And ballerinas come and dancers go
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I think about her every now and then
But I don't need no ballerin
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a again
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Valerie, darling, can't you see?
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Valeria, why don't you dance with me?
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Valeria, darling, can't you see?
when you were alive
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You were so beautiful
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when you were not alive
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD C G Em
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