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Put your arm around, put your arm around, your arm around my waist
Hold your arm around, hold your arm around, your arm around my waist
While the moon's shining bright and the music's just right
And you're holding me tight, we will dance through the night

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Put your little foot, put your little foot, put your little foot with mine
With you little foot, with your little foot, with your little foot keep time
Charming tender melody, in my heart a memory
There you'll always be, varsouviana's part of me

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Source: Glenn Ohlin 'Cowboy Songs' Philo 1017.

Oh that is so simple and so lovely! I have unbounding respect for what Ohrlin has done for the promotion of cowboy music - and the cowboys took the varsouviana for their own. I'm sure Bob Bolton and Tony Suttor can give examples of the love of the tune in the Australian bush tradition as well. Glenn Ohrlin wrote:

Another of my favourite pieces in the whole world is this old dance. At the ranch dances and public dances I went to in Arizona in '43 and '44, they always played varsouviana, also known as Put Your Little Foot, at least once. The first time I heard it was at a one room schoolhouse between Superstition Mountain, Miami and Florence Junction in '43. This was way off the main highway. I was on a Clemens Company ranch nearby and had gone to the dance with the ranch manager, his son and daughter-in-law and a kid cowboy from Texas I was running with at the time. I thought it was really nice music and the dance was fine watching. Also there was a hell of a fight after the dance, as some miners from Miami or Globe showed up and didn't make too big a hit with the cowboys. If anyone thinks cowboyin' died out with the end of the long trail drives, they should have seen the cowboys in that country busting through the brush and cactus after wild cattle. Me and the kid from Texas could keep up with camp and lead in a few the natives had caught but that was about it. In fact, they sent us to their feedlot and farm near Chandler where we got to dances in town. More 'Put Your Little Foot' and more fist fights after. People were tough then, but not so dirty and I got treated fine wherever I went.

Cheers, Stewie {only too glad to give a plug for someone like Ohrlin}.