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Dance with Your Children

by Vinny Pollina

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    Song written for all the children. Featuring the 1989 class of Opepo in Port Townsend, WA. All dancing. Thanks Jim and Sue.
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Recorded at Synergy Sound, in Chimacum, Washington. 1990.
Neville Pearsall, recording engineer
Nick Dallett, producer

lyrics

I wanna dance with my children,
I'd like to have them dance along.
I wanna dance with my children,
And have them sing a happy song.

Should we really look beyond ourselves
to this sad, sad, world for peace?
Not until we look inside ourselves
will we find our soul's release.

This troubled world keeps teaching us
that to grow up is to die
to all the joys and the wilds of childhood.
But I swear that's tale is just a lie.

Common and dance with your children,
I'd like to have them dance along.
Common and dance with the children,
And have them sing a happy song.

If we treat our kids with madness
(if we teach them madness)
that this world would have us teach.
(We'd only give them pain)
Or with our prejudice instruct instruct them
(and if we're not together)
then we never can find peace.
(there's nothing we can gain)

But as we find a new way
(we'll give them something better)
of letting wholeness be our goal.
(Give them all our love)
We'll call on love and peace to guide us
(All our love)
then we'll really start to grow.

Dance with the children,
Dance, dance, dance, dance.
Common, Dance, dance, dance, dance..

credits

released February 1, 1990
Vincent Pollina- Guitars, vocals, kazoo
Nick Dallett- Acoustic guitar,bass, voice, drum programming
Susan Derby, Rachel Katz, Lou Montana - vocals
The P.T.Opepo class: Brian Boyd, Hans Daubenberger, Megan Foley, Kody Force, Brehanna Fraser, Koya Leyden, Emily Madden, Spruce Metzger, Animito Pollina, Alia Ross, Lela Schneidman, Kerri Sears, Mercedes Young - refrain.

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Vinny Pollina Port Townsend, Washington

Born in Manhattan, New York, 1952.

I began playing music just about the time I saw the first poster welcoming me to Middle Earth, in Brentano's bookstore.

Never really thought I would make it there. ... more

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