Key: G
Introduction:
G D7 G D7
Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off lots of fat.
G D# D7 G
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot.
G D7 G D7
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
G D# D7 G
Bear in mind the idea that I've got.
C B7 E7 A7
When it gets too hot for comfort, and you can't get ice cream cones,
D7 G7 C
'T ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
C B7 E7 C
When the lazy syncopation of the music softly moans,
D7 G7 C
'T ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
Em C Em C
The polar bears aren't green up in Greenland, they've got the right idea.
G7 G#7 A7 G#7 G7
They think it's great to refrigerate while we cremate down here.
C
Just be like those bamboo babies in the South Sea tropic zones,
D7 G7 C
'T ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
G D7 G D7
Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off excess fat.
G D# D7 G
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot. No I'm not.
G D7 G D7
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
G D# D7 G
Bear in mind this idea that I've got.
C B7 E7 A7
When you're calling up your sweetie in those hot house telephones,
D7 G7 C
ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
C B7 E7 A7
When you're on a crowded dance floor, near those red hot saxophones,
D7 G7 C
'T ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
Em C
Just take a look at the girls while they're dancing.
Em C
Notice the way that they're dressed.
Em C
They wear silken clothes without any hose and nobody knows the rest.
If a gal wears X-ray dresses, and shows everything she owns,