Circle left
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
Left allemande your corner go, come on back you dosado
The boys star left hand round tonight
Come on and turn your partner by the right, you go left allemande tonight
Come back one, promenade away
I mean the bare necessities, the kind that sets a bear at ease
That bring the bare necessities of life

Heads promenade her halfway around
Come in a square thru go four hands around
Around the ring you go, you dosado
Make a wave, girls trade, swing thru today
Box the gnat, then you smile, swing that girl awhile
Swing that lady then you promenade
I mean the bare necessities, old Mother Nature's recipes
That brings the bare necessities to life