Lyr Add: Changing Partners

Subject: Lyr Add: CHANGING PARTNERS
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 12:01 AM

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CHANGING PARTNERS
(Lyrics, Joe Darion. Music, Larry Coleman)
- Patti Page (peak Billboard position # 3 in 1953-54; charted for 19 total weeks)
- Competing versions that also charted were by Kay Starr (# 7); Dinah Shore (# 12); and Bing Crosby (# 13)

We were waltzing together to a dreamy melody,
When they called out "Change partners" and you waltzed away from me.
Now my arms feel so empty as I gaze around the floor,
And I'll keep on changing partners till I hold you once more.

Though we danced for one moment and too soon we had to part,
In that wonderful moment something happened to my heart,
So I'll keep changing partners till you're in my arms and then,
Oh, my darling, I will never change partners again.

Subject: Lyr Add: SWAPPIN' PARTNERS (Homer & Jethro)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Sep 03 - 12:02 AM

And now the parody (transcribed from the sound file at The Record Lady's All-Time Country Favorites, Real Country Page 32):

SWAPPIN' PARTNERS
(Homer and Jethro)

We were waltzin' together to the music so divine.
She was steppin' all over the feet that are all mine.
Oh, my corns and my bunions were a-hurtin' painfully,
And I wished that someone would change partners with me.

Though my darlin' was knock-kneed, she was cute as she could be,
And I was bow-legged, as anyone could see.
And while we were dancin', they were laughin' more an' more.
We looked like an eggbeater as we waltzed around the floor.

Then we danced to a new dance. I think it's called the creep.
The front end goes like a Cadillac and the rear end like a Jeep.
Then she tripped and she fell down. On the floor she sits and cries,
Cause it bruised her somewhat and hurt her otherwise.

But no one would change partners, so I danced with her instead.
She had a strange growth on her neck. I think it was her head.
No, they would not change partners. At my girl they wouldn't look,
And if Kinsey could see her, he would write another book.