Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra "'Taint No Sin To Dance Around In Your Bones" on Banner 0569.

The vocal is by Jack Parker.

January 15, 1930.

The song "Tain't No Sin (To Dance Around in Your Bones)" has words by Edgar Leslie.

Music is by Walter Donaldson.

Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off lots of fat.
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot.
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
Bear in mind the idea that I've got.

When it gets too hot for comfort,
and you can't get ice cream cones--
no, it ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones!

When the lazy syncopation of the
music softly moans, it ain't no sin
to take off your skin and
dance around in your bones!

The polar bears aren't green up in
Greenland. They've got the right idea.
They think it's great to refrigerate
while we all cremate down here.

Just be like those bamboo babies
in the South Sea tropic zones--for
it ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones!

Dancing may do this and that, and help you take off excess fat.
But I'm no friend of dancing when it's hot. No I'm not.
So if you are a dancing fool, who loves to dance but can't keep cool,
Bear in mind this idea that I've got.

When you're calling up your sweetie in those hot house telephones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
When you're on a crowded dance floor, near those red hot saxophones,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.
Just take a look at the girls while they're dancing. Notice the way that they're dressed.
They wear silken clothes without any hose and nobody knows the rest.
If a gal wears X-ray dresses, and shows everything she owns,
Tain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones.




Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra "'Taint No Sin To Dance Around In Your Bones" Banner 0569 (1930)