title: Ballerina
key: Jazz
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Any

BALLERINA
W: Bob Russell
M: Carl Sigman
Nat King Cole, Van Morrison
Key: C
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Dance, bal-le-ri-na, dance,
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and do your pir-ou-ette
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In rhy-thm with your ach-ing heart.
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Dance, bal-le-ri-na, dance.
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You must-n’t once for-get
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A danc-er has to dance the part.
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Whirl, bal-le-ri-na, whirl,
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and just ig-nore the chair
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That’s emp-ty in the sec-ond row.
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This is your mo-ment girl.
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Al-though he’s not out there
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ap-plaud-ing as you steal the show.
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Once you said his love must wait its turn,
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You want-ed fame in-stead.
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I guess that’s your con-cern,
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we live and learn, and love is gone
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Bal-le-ri-na, gone.
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So on with your ca-reer
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You can’t af-ford a back-ward glance.
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Dance on and on and on
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a thou-sand peo-ple here
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have come to see the show
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as �round and �round you go
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so bal-le-ri-na dance dance dance