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1. Grandmother heard him
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   His song was so sweet.
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   She danced to the fiddler
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   On little bare feet
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   She was fifteen and fair
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   With black braided hair
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   And didn’t she dance in her day.
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   Over the years I remember she said,
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   One night as she kissed me and put me to bed.
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   “When I was a maid, and my song was played,
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   Oh didn’t I dance in my day?”

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    G               C
   Didn’t I dance, Didn’t I dance
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   Didn’t I dance in my day.
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   Didn’t I dance, Didn’t I dance
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   Didn’t I dance in my day.

2. Mother, she danced
   In a long silken gown
   Hair done in curls
   The belle of the town.
   There was many a man
   Who asked for her hand
   And didn’t she dance in her day
   Now when she dances, just once in a while
   She says, “I remember those times and I smile
   I think of the night my feet danced so light
   Oh, Didn’t I dance in my day?”

Refrain

3. See the young girls
   On soft summer’s night
   Silhouettes slender
   Against the moon’s light;
   Hair flowing free
   Once that was me
   And didn’t I dance in my day!
   Now that I’m older, there’s one thing I know.
   I’ll go on dancing though the tempo be slow
   And I know that some day to my grandchild I’ll say
   “Oh, Didn’t I dance in my day!”

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