"I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy" is a song featuring Slim Dusty from the It's a Wiggly Wiggly World! album and video, based on the song "Duncan".
Lyrics[]
Oh, I love to have a dance with Dorothy
Oh, I love to have a dance with Dot
We dance to all kinds of music
We love to dance the Romp Bomp-a-Stomp
We dance in the Town and the Country
Where the atmosphere is great
We love to have a dance with Dorothy
‘Cause Dorothy’s our mate.
Well, I love to have a dance with Wags the Dog
I love to have a dance with Wags
He loves to dance the tango
And he carries his bone in a big brown bag.
We dance in the Town and Country
Where the atmosphere is great
We love to have a dance with Wags the Dog
‘Cause Wags is our mate
'Woaoa I love dancing'
Now here comes Henry the Octopus
He always loves to dance
He twirls and spins and flourishes
He dances in his eight legged pants
We dance in the Town and the Country
Where the atmosphere is great
Oh, we love to have a dance with Henry
‘Cause Henry's our mate
Here comes Captain Feathersword
Here comes our pirate friend
He dances jigs and hornpipes
He keeps dancing ‘till the end
We dance in the Town and Country
Where the atmosphere is great
Oh, we love to have a dance with the Captain
Because the Captain's our mate. Yeah
'Ha, ha, ha. Well, blow me down'
Well we love to have a dance with Dusty
Well we love to have a dance with Slim
He can do all kinds of dances
And nobody dances better than him
He'll dance in the Town and the Country
Where the atmosphere is great
We love to have a dance with Dusty
Slim Dusty’s our mate
It's time to dance together
‘Cause dancing’s so much fun
You can dance anywhere you like
There’s something here for everyone
We dance in the Town and the Country
Where the atmosphere is great
Oh let's all dance together
Because we’re all good mates
'Oooh you're a great dancer Slim.
You're a great dancer'
Song Credits[]
Written by John Alexander, published by Mushroom Music.
Duets[]
Vocals: Slim Dusty, Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce, Emma Watkins
Backing Vocals: Lachlan Gillespie, Simon Pryce
Voice of Dorothy the Dinosaur: Caterina Mete
Voice of Captain Feathersword: Paul Paddick
Voice of Henry the Octopus & Wags the Dog: Jeff Fatt
12-String Electric Guitar: Alex Keller
Acoustic Bass Guitar: Alex Keller
Piano: Lachlan Gillespie
Banjo: Anthony Field
Dobro: Oliver Brian
Tambourine: Anthony Field
Drums: Tony Henry
Trivia[]
- The words on Slim Dusty's guitar strap say "Waltzing Matilda", in reference to the song.
- The drums that were played by Tony Henry were later reused in the 2017 version.
- Some of the vocals of Captain Feathersword were actually voice clips from the Each Other's Voices Street skit on the Series 2 episode "The Body".
- Carolyn Ferrie provides the voice of Dorothy in the original version.
- The original video version uses sound effects.
- The footage of Slim Dusty was later used in the 2017 video of this song.
- On Xuxa's album and video "So Para Baixinhos 12", the Brazilian version is "Eu Adoro Dançar"
- The English version plays in D, E and F where as the Brazilian version plays in just E and F.