From the recording Mainline
Just south of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, there’s a theatre in a barn that was once the site of a legendary barn dance. Every Saturday night for decades, the barn was packed full of people from the surrounding area ready to let loose. As we’ve played this song live, audience members have come to us with so many similar stories of the rip-roaring barn dances that were once “the thing to do” in communities across Canada.
- Nathan Smith
Lyrics
I’ll pick you up about half past 6
Drive us out to the middle of the sticks
Put your pretty dress and your best shoes on
And we’ll dance all night at The Lakeview Barn
It’s the biggest dance floor country wide
Ten-dollar ticket just to get inside
Make your reservation well in advance
Or you’ll never get into The Lakeview Dance
We’re going two-stepping all night long
Swinging in time to a country song
Everybody’s going and there’s nothing quite like
The Lakeview Dance on a Saturday night
The hardwood’s bopping, the band’s on fire
We’re burning up the floor and we’ll never get tired
The barn boards echo a cheer so loud
When the guitar rips and lights up the crowd
The liquor license never came through
We’ll pack us a pint of that homemade brew
Pass the bottle, fill your cup
And hope we get a warning ‘fore the cops show up
Chorus
The Lakeview Barn is the place to be
For the old and the young and the in-between
1am they’ll turn out the lights
But we’ll be coming back next Saturday night
We’re going two-stepping all night long
Swinging in time to a country song
Everybody’s rockin’ and there’s nothing quite like
The Lakeview Dance on a Saturday night