Dancing With Mr D

Now, down in the graveyard where we have our tryst

The air smells sweet, the air smells sick

He never smiles, his mouth merely twists

The breath in my lungs feels clingin' and thick

The palms of my hands is clammy and wet

Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me

Dancin' with Mr. D, Lord

Will it be poison I put in my glass?

Oh, will it be slow, or will it be fast?

The bite of a snake, the sting of a spider

A drink of Belladonna on a Toussaint night

Hidin' in a corner in New York City

Lookin' down a forty-four in West Virginia

When I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

And dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me

Dancin' with Mr. D

Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me

Dancin' with Mr. D, Lord

Save the light

One night, I was dancin' with a lady in black

Wearin' black silk gloves and a black silk hat

She look at me, longing, with black velvet eyes

She gazed at me strange, all cunning and wise

But I saw the flesh just fall off her bones

The eyes in her skull was burnin' like coals

Lord, have mercy, fire and brimstone

I was dancin' with Mrs. D

Lord, I was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free

Was dancin', dancin', dancin' so free, Lord

Was dancin', dancin', was dancin' so free, Lord

Dancin', dancin', good, good God

I was dancin', dancin', Lord, keep your hand off me

Dancin', dancin'

Now, I was dancin', dancin', let me be

I was dancin', dancin'

Dancin', dancin'

Lord, I was dancin', dancin'

Dancin', dancin'

Dancin', dancin'