The Dancing - June Tabor, Andy Cutting, Tim Harries

Saturday night at the Adam Smith Hall

The couples all move to the dance master’s call

Tonight they’ve no problems, no worries at all;

It’s the dancing, the dancing’s tonight

And oh, Monday morning, she comes round too soon;

The sound of the flaxmill, the beat of the loom

But tonight the band’s playing a romantic tune;

Aye, the dancing, the dancing’s tonight

Her partner is perfect, so light on his feet

The footwork is faultless.

Perhaps they might meet

Up by the old Kirk or down Hunter Street

Walking home under the stars

Walking back late by Kirkcaldy’s sea wall

The sea looks so big, the sky is so tall

The fate of two people can’t matter at all;

Just a waltz in three-quarter time