Once In a Lifetime Ragtime Dancing

The crowd went wild. And she swirled like spring molasses She danced and danced and danced And caressed the air with a honey-brown hand. The crowd drank gin, got drunk on the blues And she drank in the night in one long swallow Sassy-slow saxophone bathed the room. And they listened with hunger and tapping feet Ragtime dancing languid with heat and spangled pop And it went on forever and danced all night sleeping in the morning with blues-weary eyes And she melted in a pool of gin-crisp dancing One foot tapped on. And the crowd went wild.