I Wish You Could Have Seen Her Dance Lyrics - T Bone Burnett

She wore a low-cut black satin dress 

Slit up the front and down the back 

She wore black high-heeled shoes 

With laces that went up her ankles 

She wore black velvet gloves 

With rhinestone bracelets around them 

She had long blond hair, she had long blond hair 

(Long blond hair, long blond hair) 

And she sat on the jukebox with one leg propped up 

And a crowd of boys gathered 'round her 

And one tried to kiss her 

But she turned her face 

And I wish you could have seen her dance 

The way she soared across the floor 

I wish you could have seen her dance 

She did a pirouette and then a Kung Fu step 

I wish you could have seen her dance 

The way she threw her hair through the air 

And I wish you could have seen her dance 

I asked her, "Do you come here often?" 

She said, "I've never been here before" 

I asked her, her name and she said 

"They call me Kim Boston in England" 

"And Kim English in Boston and also in Dallas" 

I said, "How did you like Dallas" 

She said, "It was just like Ireland 

Except the wells don't look like wishing wells" 

And I wish you could have seen her dance 

The way she soared across the floor 

I wish you could have seen her dance 

She did the Flavo and the Tango and the Flamenco 

I wish you could have seen her dance 

The way she threw her hair through the air 

And I wish you could have seen her dance 

I asked, "Are you an actress" 

She said, "No, but do you think I'm good enough" 

She said, "You look like you belong on 

Monty Python, Eric Idle" 

She said, "Do you wanna know what I do for work" 

I said, "Sure" 

(She had long blond hair) 

I said, "Alright" 

(She had long blond hair) 

She said, "I'm a maid and a dancer 

I've danced for three rock bands 

And one of the bands 

Even wrote a song about me" 

And I wish you could have seen her dance 

I wish you could have seen her dance 

I wish you could have seen her, wish you could have seen her 

Wish you could have seen her dance