If I Could Dance With Dinosaursby Adrienne Foster Potter

Copyright@July 2001 by Adrienne Foster Potter. All rights reserved. May be copied for classroom use.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

If I could dance with dinosaurs I'd choose the BrontoSAURus,

'Cuz if we did the tap dance I think no one could ignore us.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

And if I had a partner who was called TyrannoSAURus,

Not even classical ballet could ever start to bore us.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Then I would dance on Broadway with the nimble StegoSAURus;

And TeraDACtyls could be asked to come and join the chorus

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Or I could win a contest with the dainty AlloSAURus,

And though the judge might be against us, all the kids are for us.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

I could dance in Rockefeller's garden with DiPLODocus,

But he might eat it up and then they would make a lot of fuss!

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Or I could dance down Main Street with one we call TriCERatops,

Right up 'til we both got tickets from a tough young pair o' cops.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

I would dance in Central park with my old friend IGUANodon,

Far into the starry night 'till moonlight and the dawn are gone.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

I would fly across the sky with feathered ArchaeOPteryx (ar-key-OP-ter-ix),

And the sight of us would make a mother robin drop 'er sticks.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

But if some giant alligators came into the city

And went downtown to City Hall and made them beg for pity,

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

And frightened all the people, from janitors to judges,

And threatened to take over due to alligator grudges;

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Then I'd call up all the dinosaurs and ask them to come down,

And have a dino-gator match in the middle of the town.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Then alligator claws would clash while scales and teeth go flying

And clouds of dust would hide the fight so no one knows who's crying.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

But then the dust would settle down and all the noise would silence,

And beaten alligators would just sit there in defiance.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

Then the mighty dinosaurs would put the gators in the zoo

Where you could go and visit them so they could stare at you.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

I'd dance all day and sleep all night with mighty GorgoSAURus.

We'd dance so hard and be so tired no one could out-snore us.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

For breakfast all the dinosaurs and I would eat a waffle.

I think dancing without dinosaurs truly would be awful.

If I Could Dance With Dinosaurs

The End