Dancing
I dance when I am happy, I dance when I am sad, I dance when I am lonely, I dance when I am mad.
My teacher says, “Sit still! Don't dance about all day.”
But my mother says, “Dancing makes you healthy, Dancing makes you tall, One day you'll be a dancer, And surprise them all!”
And I say, “One day I'll dance and people will pay Just to see me leap and twirl. ‘Her dancing is SO good,' they'll say.”
This story is brought to you by the Global African Storybook Project, an effort to translate the stories of the African Storybook Project into all the languages of the world.
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