|
|
The Teddy Bear Dance
When the moon hangs over the rolling downs
That ripple between the seven towns,
When the night is fresh and the air is clear
When the owls hide their eyes and the fireflies appear.
Then Teddy Bear time is here.
There are Teddy Bears dancing here.
Down sheets and trees and ivy plants
To come to the site of the Teddy Bear dance
Out from the windows on seven towns
They creep on their way to the rolling downs
For Teddy Bear time is here.
There are Teddy Bears dancing here.
Out from the beds of their daytime chums
Silently drawn by the beat of the drums,
Out from the houses and out through the gates
Down the dark lanes where they join with their mates.
For Teddy Bear time is here.
There are Teddy Bears dancing here.
Then onto the downs and around they prance
Joining their hands in a frenzy of dance,
Coming together to quadrille in teams
Shedding their stuffing and straining their seams
Quicker and quicker the music's beat
Faster and faster the speed of their feet,
Till their eyes shake out and their ears come away
And their fur starts to fly and their paws start to fray,
For Teddy Bear time is here.
There are Teddy Bears dancing here.
But when the dawn peeks out over the hill
The drumming stops dead and they all fall quite still:
Knowing it's late and they must get home soon
But caught by the spell of the last of the moon,
For Teddy Bear time was here.
There were Teddy Bears dancing here.
Then laughing and giggling they glue back each bit
They have lost in the night with Teddy Bear spit.
And murmuring and whispering "cheers" to their mates
They rush to their homes and run through the gates.
And scampering up ivy, up sheets and up trees,
And leap through the windows to squeeze, if you please,
Under the covers right down to the ends
Of the innocent beds of their innocent friends.
As if to the world, such a sweet little sight,
They'd been lying there faithful the whole of the night.
But Teddy Bear time was there.
There were Teddy Bears dancing there.
