When the dancers took to the promenade    Well my heart leapt high    And I was unafraid    Of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years    Tell me how do you    How do you feel       Well the band took their places and got all in tune    And then the caller's voice    Well it rang out beneath the moon    And then the boys took their girls and they started to reel    And they were singin' how do you, how do you feel       And then the people in the town said that they'd call the police    If we didn't keep down all this disturbin' their peace    And Officer Black, you know he answered their pleas    And he ran up on the hill just to see       Well he hid in the bushes just a stone's throw away    And then we all saw this change comin' over his face    But he was bouncin' to the beat and started hoppin' on his heels    Singin', how do you do, how do you feel       And then the townspeople asked him if he'd make some arrests    Could they find peace and quiet so they could go back to bed    He said if it's peace that you want, you're gonna find it on the hill    But the silence that you keep is the silence that kills       So the townspeople all got so uptight and mad    You know they fired him on the spot    And then they threw away his badge    Then they asked him to leave and he said gladly I will    They said tell us now how do you feel       He said, when the dancers took to the promenade    Well my heart leapt high and I was unafraid    Of the feeling I'd stifled for so many years    Tell me how do you, how do you feel