[Verse:]
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There's nothing new beneath the sun
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Except the new dance I've invented
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And it's really lots of fun
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Come on now, take your place
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And soon you'll get the knack
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You don't stand face to face
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You do it back to back
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[Refrain:]
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Dancing back to back
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Takes you off the beaten track
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You don't look at your partner at all
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When you dance back to back
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That's that new attack
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That the other dances lack
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You can see what goes on in the hall
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When you dance back to back
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Your partner won't see you
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Make eyes at who's dancing by
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Your partner won't mind it
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She's doing the same, that's why
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You must dance back to back
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Let me place you in the pack
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Cut the cards and I'll deal you a queen and a jack
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Back to back
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[Patter, in film:]
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Take your partner on the floor and stand back to back
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Hold your partner gently by the hand back to back
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After you have done it, you'll get hep to the knack
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'Stead of steppin' front to front, you step back to back
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Everybody's dancing back to back [... etc.]
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Back To Back
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Irving Berlin |