I’m uploading video of “Dance Till Morning Light,” kind of a roots rock ballad played with just an acoustic guitar. It was recorded August 4, 2014 at The Acoustic Explosion show at Silvies on Chicago’s north side. The lyrics are below the video.
DANCE TILL MORNING LIGHT
WELL YOU WALK THROUGH THE NIGHT
YOU FEEL ALL RIGHT
THOUGH NOTHING IS REALLY REAL
YOU GET AROUND
YOU’RE GETTIN DOWN
YOU’RE SO HIGH THAT YOU HARDLY FEEL
YOU BEEN UP AND DOWN THE STRIP
YOU KNOW THE TRIP
JUST ONE BIG HAPPY CROWD
YEAH, YOU’RE LOOKING FOR LOVE BUT CAN’T TALK ABOVE
THE MUSIC WE PLAY SO LOUD
CHORUS:
SO JUST DANCE CHILDREN DANCE
THIS SOFT ELECTRIC NIGHT
DANCE, DANCE TILL MORNING LIGHT
WELL YOUR LOCAL ROCK STARS
AND OWNERS OF THE BARS
LOVE TO SEE YOU OUT TONIGHT
GO ON, FEED YOUR HEAD
KNOCK YOURSELVES DEAD
YOUR MONEY’S GOOD HERE, IT’S ALL RIGHT
ACROSS THE ROOM
THROUGH THE GLOOM
SOMEBODY CATCHES YOUR EYE
SO YOU WALK THEIR WAY
WHAT CAN YOU SAY?
YOU’RE BOTH REAL HIGH
CHORUS
Here’s how I happened to write this one: When the world was young and I was at SIU, I played in bands on the weekends. After I got out of 
school, rather than face getting a job, I just went from playing two nights a week to playing six or seven. We were known to sometimes work fifteen gigs in fourteen days. (Being young is wonderful.) It was fun, I want you to know. Plus, the last three years I did it, I played with my brother Doug in The McDaniel Brothers Band. I’m gladder than I can tell you to have spent that much time with Doug and made that much good music with him. It makes up for a lot.
After around seven years of all that, though, the kids in college bars started to look like junior high schoolers to me, and I figured it was time to get out. Which I did. That last summer I was playing, I wrote “Dance Till Morning Light.” Weirdly enough, I’d never played it out before a recent show at The Acoustic Explosion. I don’t know why that was, but I’m glad I finally did. Now I’m going to have to get around to recording the song, I guess.
Here a shot from the show at The Acoustic Explosion.
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