Ballbarrybaroo

There once was a town called Ballbarrybaroo The people who lived there had only one shoe This made it quite hard to go dancing you see Their poor aching toes were as blue as could be Each time that their partner would shuffle or slide The shoe on their foot wasn’t on the right side And their poor little toes that were open and bare Got stepped on each time that the music would blare Then into the town came a stranger one day And he helped the Ballbarrybaroosers this way The next time they gathered inside for a dance He saw what the problem was there at a glance The stranger then had them remove their one shoe And dance in their socks for a number or two The Ballbarrybaroosers thought this was quite neat To dance all about without hurting their feet And that dearest friend’s how the sock hop was born In Ballbarrybaroo on a Saturday morn Now surely you would not doubt all that I say For it truly did happen exactly that way