Song For Belly Dancer

My youth was spent in the Orient

Where they never taught me to waltz

You'd be surprised when I exercised

It was never done to a waltz!

It was done like this...

But never to a waltz!

In ancient Siam, women like I am

Indoors or on the street...

No woman... dances with her feet!

Egyptian, Persian, only one version

No other stands a chance,

Feet are for walking,

Not for dance!

To an oriental fiddle,

You can see them shake their middle,

The feet don't mean a thing

Middles are all they swing!

Even an egyptian mummy

Wiggles her tummy

Wiggles it so and so

That is the only dance I know!

You don't need an Arthur Murray

Just a fringe that's on the surrey

Will satisfy your needs

Dancing between the beads!

Everybody shake your torso

Sexy but more so,

Shake it, come on, let's go...

Lets do the only dance I know!