Margot Fonteyn

Margot Fonteyn
 you're a dancing Eleanor
 to and fro who would know
 you ever touched the floor
 Margot Fonteyn
 know for now and evermore
 you're looking great
 in tights and bows
 your palm contains
 the front ten rows
 you had the moves but no one knows
 that your legs were touched by the hands of God
 but your heart stands on its toes
 yeah, your heart stands on its toes
 Wheels of misfortune
 a retired nurse down south
 living on a memory
 living hand to husband's mouth
 when most call on a pension
 and act senile and mean
 you pirouette as Juliet
 and look like you're eighteen
 Chorus
 smallest things can cause a change
 like a bullet to the spine
 and who would know that wasn't planned
 you act like it's all fine
 should I need a private maid
 would you please be mine?
 roll me through your garden
 and push me from behind
 Chorus
 but this ain't how it happens
 for queens and cavaliers
 you know something we don't
 your ending's not down here
 Chorus