From the 1936 musical “Over She Goes”.
Words by Desmond Carter and Frank Eyton.
Music by Billy Mayerl.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
The dance goes on, although the day
Has driven the shadows of night away
The band has gone, but here are we
Still dancing to the memory’s melody
Though hushed is Love’s sweet serenade
We hear on our heart-strings the waltz they played
The music and moonlight have gone
But the dance goes on
As the night was slowly dying
Music mellow from a cello
Struck a lilt, there’s no denying
And our feet caught it’s beat
Then we found our hearts replying
We were captured and enraptured
In a kind of lover’s trance
Through the chance of a dance