The Great Pretender
The Platters 1956
  (Gramophone Productions 825)   Georg Thomas
 
two columns

OPENER    Basic - SSD Week 4

Sides face grand square
Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Pretending I'm doing well (ooh ooh)
My need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell

Allemande and weave
Oh yes I'm the great pretender (ooh ooh)
Swing your girl and promenade [or: Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)]
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone


FIGURE    Mainstream, corner progression

Heads promenade go halfway
Walk right in and pass the ocean here; extend
Swing thru you know, you spin the top for me
Boy move up and do the right & left thru
Flutter wheel straight across, sweep 1/4 more
Swing the corner girl and promenade
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to dream all alone


MIDDLE BREAK - CLOSER    Basic - SSD Week 1

Circle left
Too real is this feeling of make believe
Too real when I feel what my heart can't conceal

Allemande left your corner, turn your partner right
Allemande left your corner and weave
I seem to be what I'm not, you see
I'm wearing my heart like a crown
Pretending that you're still around


TAG

Swing
Pretending that you're still around

Data page: https://www.ceder.net/recorddb/viewsingle.php?RecordId=17026
Cue sheet: https://www.ceder.net/recorddb/cuesheet.php?RecordId=17026
Lyrics:    https://www.ceder.net/recorddb/lyrics.php?LyricsId=1737