As one who is blessed with all the graceful co-ordination of an inebriated elephant with its legs tied together, as a matter of public service I don’t dance. You’re welcome.
Accordingly, I was particularly attracted to this little number as a response to Jim’s theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week, because although it’s about ‘a dance’, it’s a dance that apparently only existed in the mind of its writer, Bryan Ferry. Perhaps, on that basis, it’s a sort of Schrödinger’s Dance.
There’s a new sensation
A fabulous creation
A danceable solution
To teenage revolution
Do the Strand love
When you feel love
It’s the new way
That’s why we say
Do the Strand
Do it on the tables
Quaglino’s place or Mabel’s
Slow and gentle
Sentimental
All styles served here
Louis Seize he prefer
Laissez-faire Le Strand
Tired of the tango
Fed up with fandango
Dance on moonbeams
Slide on rainbows
In furs or blue jeans
You know what I mean
Do the Strand
Had your fill of Quadrilles
The Madison and cheap thrills
Bored with the Beguine
The samba isn’t your scene
They’re playing our tune
By the pale moon
We’re incognito
Down the Lido
And we like the Strand
Arabs at oasis
Eskimos and Chinese
If you feel blue
Look through Who’s Who
See La Goulue
And Nijinsky
Do the Strandsky
Weary of the Waltz
And mashed potato schmaltz
Rhododendron
Is a nice flower
Evergreen
It lasts forever
But it can’t beat Strand power
The Sphynx and Mona Lisa
Lolita and Guernica
Did the Strand
Written by Bryan Ferry
the only deadhead in the hameau 
I would love to try some of that mashed potato schmaltz. Great choice.
Brilliant choice …
I truly love this song and remember dancing to this in my youth…. By the way I believe you don’t dance but your description walk a tad self critical I bet 😳💜💜💜
Oh no it isn’t!
It’s funny I didn’t recognize it by the lyrics but as soon as it started playing I knew it. I bought Street Life not all that long ago and this is on it. If anyone can create a Schrödinger’s Dance, it’s Bryan Ferry. Great way of describing it!