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Thursday 22 May 2014

Songs That I Love #71 Elton John - Tiny Dancer


I have included the scene from the film Almost Famous (at the bottom of this blog) when this song is played as this is how I discovered the song. I am sure I will have heard this song before but the bus scene where everyone starts singing just brought the song to life.

The film is loosely based on the early career of Cameron Crowe (who directed the film) when he was a teenage journalist for Rolling stone Magazine. He is assigned to interview the fictional band Stillwater (rumoured to be based on a number of 70's rock bands) and ends up being part of their entourage. In the scene he manages persuade the drugged out singer of the band to leave a party and join the waiting tour bus and as the bus pulls away this song starts playing... 


Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on she sings the songs
The words she knows the tune she hums

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly slowly

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady, seamstress for the band
Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man
Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand

But oh how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you and you can hear me
When I say softly slowly

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today





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