Текст песни: Fiddler's Last Dance + перевод

I knew all the tunes

Before I could talk

She knew how to dance them

By the time she could walk

Friday nights in the parlor

With fiddle and bow

Her father and mine

A lifetime ago

Each day in the school yard

'Neath the cool maple shade

I’d saw on that fiddler

My grandfather made

«The Arkansas Traveler»

«The Old Miner’s Hymn»

While she danced to my tunes

Like a leaf on the wind

He left me his music

When his time had come

Soon everyone told me

That I was the one

I took every trophy

I claimed every prize

While the one I could never win

Danced for my eyes

Now each Saturday night

Down at Jack Hewitt’s barn

She comes through the door

On Jack Hewitt’s arm

With me on the bandstand

And her on the floor

I take out my tunes

And we make love once more

Bow to your partner

Balance and swing

Waltz around gaily

All in a ring

The night wind’s alive

With laughter and chance

Come give us your hand

For the fiddler’s last dance

Now each week I know

It’s as close as I’ll come

'Cause I know where she sleeps

When the dancin' is done

Alone in the night

I’m the last one again

I still see her dance

Like a leaf on the wind

And the words trip and stumble

And die on my tongue

These love songs I write

That will never be sung

The evening moon sets

Like a stone in my breast

As this page feeds the fire

Like all of the rest

Bow to your partner

Balance and swing

Waltz around gaily

All in a ring

The night wind’s alive

With laughter and chance

Come give us your hand

For the fiddler’s last dance

Give us your hand

For the fiddler’s last dance

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