No matter how trivial
And mindless it can be
It’s still so convivial
Proportionally -

It’s all so frustrating
This tap dance is grating
Our nerves need sedating
Odd, even! Odd, even!

Don’t think with your ears blocked
You won’t catch its cadence
It’s like an alarm clock
This furious tap-dance.

And now it starts sprinting
Drops those who can’t take it!
Odd, even! Odd, even!
Keep rhythm or break it!

Break! Ba-da-ban, tam-tam - 
castanets time.
Take Your last tap-dance call - 
till the next time.)

Broke!... By a beat that shreds and careers
Break! Odd, even!
Ache Of the soles that shake chandeliers!
Odd!... Even!

Who’d take me down with him
With treacherous weaving,
In slow motion rhythm
Words none could believe in?!

Soon he’ll leave it fainting -
That beat madly grieving
But still unrelenting -
Odd, even! Odd, even!

The veins are all pulsing
The spells take their casting
What’s got them convulsing
Not vodka, but dancing

Guitar, pay your forfeit
Suspense brings a shudder
Then one beat - two more beats -
One hell of a number!

Break! Ba-da-ban, tam-tam - 
castanets time.
Take Your last tap-dance call - 
till the next time.)

Broke!... By a beat that shreds and careers
Break! Odd, even!
Ache Of the soles that shake chandeliers!
Odd!... Even!

It’s each for himself now!
All strength now bereaving -
Alone on the shelf now
You hear its feet leaving!

The "break" call is given
Your shoulders start heaving
To dreams you’re still cleaving
Odd, even! Odd, even!

You thought you were grounded,
A wreck aged one hundred -
For even you, grandad
The tapdance works wonders!

Though no one’s for stopping
Quadrille or Bolero
To stave off the coffin
Start tapdance tomorrow!

Break! Ba-da-ban, tam-tam - 
castanets time.
Take Your last tap-dance call - 
till the next time.)

Broke!... By a beat that shreds and careers
Break! Odd, even!
Ache Of the soles that shake chandeliers!
Odd!... Even!