The same is true of Lily from Dylan’s Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts. Lily is an exotic dancer, and loved by both JBig Jim and the Jack of Hearts
The Hold Steady, “Spinners”
Video spoilered for line-art nudity: [spoiler]The Hold Steady - Spinners (Official Music Video) - YouTube
She’s two years out of some prairie town
She dresses up and she spins around
Little looks and smiling talk
Heartbreak hurts but you can dance it off
She’s two years out of some prairie town
She dresses up and she spins around
She never lets them tie her down
Its a big city, and theres so much love
Barroom Girls by Gillian Welch
“Oh, the barroom girls go by your side, like the ponies who pass on a carousel ride.
And all of the colors go ‘round in a swirl, when you dance in the arms of a barroom girl.”
“Sharon” by David Bromberg is about an exotic dancer.
Frank Mills- Music Box Dancer!! Part 2, of course!
Bad Girlfriend by Theory of a Deadman is about the singer’s girlfriend (a bad one obviously) who is an exotic dancer.
No link because the lyrics are NSFW
“Thumbelina” from the movie Hans Christian Andersen
“The Stripper”, David Rose Orchestra. Yeah, it’s a stripper, and an instrumental, but strippers dance.
My uncle Walter goes Waltzing with Bears
Leo Sayers “You Make Me Fell Like Dancing”
ABBA’s lesser known I’m A Marionette could also refer to a dancer
I Can’t Dance - Genesis
Long Tall Glasses - Leo Sayer
Aretha Franklin - “Rock Steady” <– This song is sonic caffeine!
Patti Smith - “Land: Horses / Land of a Thousand Dances / La Mer (de)” - The middle section interpolates a pastiche of the Wilson Pickett dance classic, which itself folds in earlier dance songs.
Bob Marley - “Jump Nyabinghi” - Its rhythm is as delicate and lively as a water strider.
Songs about dancers, OK.
Petra Berger - “The Girl Looking Into Me” - a song about Berger’s countrywoman Mata Hari, set to the tune of the “Gliding Dance of the Maidens” from the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin. (Classical crossover)
And We Danced – The Hooters
Kate Bush - “The Red Shoes” - Based on the story by H.C. Andersen.
–Cyndi Lauper
That song is a blatant rip-off of the Dr. Seuss classic “My Uncle Terwilliger Waltzes With Bears” :mad:
My contribution: “Dancing Shoes” by Dan Fogelberg
This is the song that turned me on to him as a singer in 1977.