{"id":991,"date":"2021-05-10T05:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=991"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:07:33","slug":"dance-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/dance-the\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dance &#8211; END"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The Dance by Garth Brooks<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Key of C<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea61ce2b2317025514537' value='69ea61ce2b2317025514537'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea61ce2b2317025514537' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea61ce2b2317025514537' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea61ce2b2317025514537' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea61ce2b2317025514537' ><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;To a lot of people, I guess The Dance is a love gone bad song,&#8221; says Brooks, &#8220;Which, you know, that it is, but to me it&#8217;s always been a song about life; or maybe the loss of those people that have given the ultimate sacrifice for a dream that they believed in, like the John F. Kennedy&#8217;s or the Martin Luther King&#8217;s. John Wayne&#8217;s or the Keith Whitley&#8217;s. And if they could come back, I think they would say to us what the lyrics of The Dance really means.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">[ C G F C ] &#8211; shown with [ D A G D ]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Looking [D] back on the [G] memory of . . . The [A] dance we shared beneath the [D] stars above.\u00a0 [A]\u00a0 For a [D] moment all the [G] world was right.\u00a0 How could [A] I have known you&#8217;d [Bm] ever say [A] goodbye.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/chords\/F\/CH minor.jpg\" height=\"85\" align=\"right\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/chords\/B\/CH minor.jpg\" height=\"85\" align=\"right\" \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>And [G]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 { CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I &#8211; I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t [A] know;\u00a0 The way it all would [F#m] end the way it all would [G] go. [A]\u00a0\u00a0 Our [G] lives are better left to [A] chance I could have missed the [F#m] pain, but I&#8217;d have to [G] miss [A] the [D] dance.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Holding [D] you I held [G] everything.\u00a0 For a [A] moment wasn&#8217;t [D] I the king. [A]\u00a0\u00a0 If I&#8217;d [D] only known how the [G] king would fall.\u00a0 [A] Who&#8217;s to say you know I [Bm] might have changed it [A] all<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>So [G]<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> \u00a0\u00a0 { CHORUS } &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Yes my\u00a0[G] life is better left to [A] chance.\u00a0 I could have missed the [F#m] pain, but I&#8217;d have to [G] miss [A] the [D] dance. [ D ]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dance by Garth Brooks Key of C [ C G F C ] &#8211; shown with [ D A G D ] Looking [D] back on the [G] memory of . . . The [A] dance we shared beneath the [D] stars above.\u00a0 [A]\u00a0 For a [D] moment all &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/dance-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Dance &#8211; END<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117,131,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage","category-end-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30254,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/30254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}