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Thread #62075   Message #3903244
Posted By: Jim Dixon
01-Feb-18 - 12:41 PM
Thread Name: Humorous male/female duets (songs)
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MORE DANCE / NOCH EINEN TANZ
Here's a complete version of the song Bernard posted on 23-Aug-2003, and which John Hindsill and Sheila mentioned also:


ONE MORE DANCE
Written by C. C. Carter
As recorded by Miriam Makeba, with Charles Colman, on "Miriam Makeba" (1960).

[CC] Darling, go home; your husband is ill.
[MM] Is he ill? Let them give him a pill.
Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.*

[CC] Darling, go home; your husband is worse.
[MM] Is he worse? Well, I am no nurse.
Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.*

[CC] Darling, go home; your husband is dead.
[MM] Is he dead? There's no more to be said.
Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.
Then I'll go home to my poor old man.*

[CC] Darling, go home; the will's to be read.
[MM] What's that you said? [CC] I said the will's to be read.

[MM] Oh, no, no, my dear Franz; this is no time to dance.
I must go weep for my poor old man.
I must go weep for my poor old man.*

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* On this line, the man harmonizes: "Then she'll go home to her poor old man," or, on the last verse: "Then she'll go weep for her poor old man."

Also recorded by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba on "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (Live)" (1993).

A review at AllMusic.com referred to this as an "Austrian song." Using this clue, I found a German-language version called NOCH EINEN TANZ, performed by Esther & Abi Ofarim on their album "The Very Best Of" (2012); by Angels Blue on "Wenn die Sonne hinter den Dächern versinkt..."; and by Bea Nyga on "Bea Nyga" (2011). These are available on Spotify, but I am unable to transcribe them, being illiterate in German.