Happy Mother’s Day--Dancing Queen

Before Abba sang their famous song, you were a well known Dancing Queen;

Coupled with your feet, your beauty shone, the prettiest gal they’d ever seen!

You had the looks of a movie star, that oft made men blink twice;

And your toe taps were just legendary, you even danced with Fanny Brice!

Then came one night in forty-one, in the City of Brotherly Love;

When you met the man who stole your heart, sent down from stars above!

You were dancing at a famous place, the “Club Bally” had hired you;

My Father took one look your way, and said “I think I love her true”!

A whirlwind romance then ensued, overshadowed by the war;

As able bodied men were drafted, and both your hearts were tore!

But in June of nineteen forty-two, he got a five day pass;

He came home to sweep you in his arms, and marry his lovely lass!

He got lucky then and stayed stateside, Fort Sill Oklahoma was his base;

After two months he asked you to come, so on a train to him you raced!

You stayed there till May of forty-four, seven months pregnant with little me;

You came home to your Sister’s for my birth, in Perth Amboy New Jersey!

The war would end and Dad came home, to meet his little boy;

For thirty-two years you shared your love, till to Heaven he deployed!

You never married after he left, but you danced, for it was in your genes;

I wish you Happy Mother’s Day, my precious Dancing Queen!

My Blessed Mother, whose stage name was Arlene Dawn, tapped her way to Heaven in January of two thousand three.