Promenade

(album: Brother's Keeper - 1995)

When the dancers took to the promenade
Well my heart leapt high
And I was unafraid
Of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years
Tell me how do you
How do you feel

Well the band took their places and got all in tune
And then the caller's voice
Well it rang out beneath the moon
And then the boys took their girls and they started to reel
And they were singing how do you, how do you feel

And then the people in the town said that they'd call the police
If we didn't keep down all this disturbing their peace
And Officer Black you know he answered their pleas
And he ran up on the hill just to see

Well he hid in the bushes just a stone's throw away
And then we all saw this change coming over his face
But he was bouncing to the beat and started hopping on his heels
Singing how do you do, how do you feel

And then the townspeople asked him if he'd make some arrests
Could they find peace and quiet so they could go back to bed
He said if it's peace that you want, you're gonna find it on the hill
But the silence that you keep is the silence that kills

So the townspeople all got so uptight and mad
You know they fired him on the spot
And then they threw away his badge
Then they asked him to leave and he said gladly I will
They said tell us now how do you feel

He said when the dancers took to the promenade
Well my heart leapt high and I was unafraid
Of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years
Tell me how do you, how do you feel