| Strike up the band let it play
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| Love songs to haunt me and I will stay
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| But when it comes to a waltz
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| Both words and music will ring false
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| For you waltzed in and spun my world
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| Around in dizzy dance I swirled
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| But suddenly you waltzed away from me
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| Those violins, they must go
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| So no careless hand with a bow
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| May play on the strings of my heart
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| And make me remember how lovers part
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| How you waltzed in and spun my world
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| Around in dizzy dance I swirled
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| But suddenly you waltzed away from me
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| Strike up the band let it play
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| Whatever it chooses and I will say
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| Play me a waltz if you will
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| I’ll sit here and listen waiting until
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| My love returns to take my world
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| And spin it 'round in dizzy swirl
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| Where girl loves boy and boy loves girl
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| And feet don’t touch the ground |