When the dancers took to the promenade, well, my heart leapt high and I was unafraid of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years.
Tell me, how do you...how do you feel?
Well, the band took their places and got all in tune,
And then the caller's voice, well, it rang out beneath the moon,
And then the boys took their girls and they started to reel,
And they were singing, "How do you...how do you feel?"
And then the people in the town said that they'd call the police if we didn't keep down all this disturbing their peace,
And Officer Black, you know he answered their pleas, and he ran up on the hill just to see.
Well, he hid in the bushes, just a stone's throw away, and then we all saw this change coming over his face,
Well, he was bouncing to the beat, he started hopping on his heels.
Singing, "How do you...how do you feel?"
And then the townspeople asked him if he make some arrests,
Could they find peace and quiet so they could go back to bed?
He said, "If it's peace that you want, you're gonna find it on the hill...but the silence that you keep is the silence that kills."
So the townspeople all got so uptight and mad,
You know they fired him on the spot, and then they threw away his badge,
Then they asked him to leave and he said, "Gladly, I will,"
They said, "Tell us now - how do you feel?"
He said, "When the dancers took to the promenade, well, my heart leapt high and I was unafraid of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years,"
Tell me, how do you...how do you feel?
