Christine Lavin - The Polka-Dancing Bus Driver And The 40-Year-Old Mystery lyrics
He drives the airport express bus in Minneapolis plays polka music for the pa**engers he drives he works Monday through Friday the same shift everyday but it's on Saturdays and Sundays that he comes alive My wife and I go polka dancing every single weekend we've developed quite a style over 37 years we met while roller skating which soon led to dating and eventually to mating and settling down right here now I am not a braggart but I can say with pride and joy that I've been graceful on my feet since I was a little boy people stop and watch us dancing now we know we must look smooth my wife and I have memorized all of each other's moves but one thing has always bothered me when I was a kid girls would never dance with me no matter what I did I know I wasn't handsome the truth is I was poor I tried hard to be friendly I don't think I was a bore but all the girls that I approached simply shook their heads I'd retreat across the dance floor hang out with my buddies there instead and soon I just stopped asking them it was easier that way thank God my future wife walked in the roller rink that day last year I went to the 40th reunion of my high school cla** my wife and I danced all the dances the slow ones and the fast and I saw the girls -- they're women now who'd never dance with me and all those awkward feelings came back the way it used to be so I went right up to them though I was shaking all inside and I said 'something has always bothered me and left me mystified years ago I asked you to dance and you always said no what was it about me that you all disliked so?' well they stuttered and they stammered and they said 'it wasn't you we did not know how to dance we thought you knew we never danced with anyone we always felt like fools we were perennial wallflowers all through high school' so one by one he danced them each around the high school gym his wife smiled as the girls awkwardly tried to follow him then he took her in his arms and glided out the door the 40 year old mystery a mystery no more