Nurture your Nature

Dancing Queen 🇸🇪 [13+]

Yes, I remember Mama... and disco.

I joined the disco floor late... in 1981.

ABBA was very popular and it still makes me want to dance. I wasn't 17. I wasn't a young Swedish teenager. But the song resonated with my "Coming Out" as it were.

The dance floor was usually crowded at 2 a.m. when I had lunch-break. I was in my own apartment instead of living with friends or family. I enjoyed the new-found freedom, the joy of movement. The loss of weight was a dividend.

I remember two of my co-workers taking me aside and saying that they knew where I was going and that they were cool with that. A major kindness for those times.

It was a time when I was trying to find ME, the one I hid from.



One note about the video... it does capture the dizzy nature of the lights of the disco dance floor.

Lyrics
Ooh
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl
Watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Friday night and the lights are low
Looking out for a place to go
Where they play the right music
Getting in the swing
You come to look for a king
Anybody could be that guy
Night is young and the music's high
With a bit of rock music
Everything is fine
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet
Only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl
Watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
You're a teaser, you turn 'em on
Leave 'em burning and then you're gone
Looking out for another
Anyone will do
You're in the mood for a dance
And when you get the chance
You are the dancing queen
Young and sweet
Only seventeen
Dancing queen
Feel the beat from the tambourine, oh yeah
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl
Watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Digging the dancing queen