Good posts, bw and lady p:

Sometimes I think that the folk community thinks that the only true waltz is with bears. Nice song, too, bw. It's funny, as a pretty lousy dancer, who many songs I've written with waltzes in them. I wrote a song about a woman in a nursing home who was paralyzed to the extent that all she could do was tap one finger to the music I was playing. A song came to me about her, imagining that she was thinking back to the time when she was a young girl, being asked to dance.

"She moves to the music, although she can't dance
With a far away look in her eye
Then she's back once again on that warm summer night
As if none of the years had rolled by
He bows so politely and asks her to dance
And she smiles as she offers her hand
Then they balance and turn in three quarter time
And you swear she can still hear the band"

Jerry