Pick Yourself Up (HD Dance routine) - Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in Swing Time (1936)

Music by Jerome Kern. One of their most joyous and exuberant numbers is also a technical tour-de-force with the basic polka embellished by syncopated rhythms and overlayed with tap decoration.
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FRED:
Please teacher, teach me something.
Nice teacher, teach me something.
I'm as awkward as a camel.
That's not the worst.
My two feet haven't met yet.
But I'll be teacher's pet yet,
'Cause I'm going to learn to dance or burst.

GINGER:

Nothing's impossible, I have found.
For when my chin is on the ground,
I pick myself up, dust myself off,
Start all over again.

Don't lose your confidence if you slip.
Be grateful for a pleasant trip,
And pick yourself up; dust yourself off;
Start all over again.

Work like a soul inspired
'Til the battle of the day is won.
You may be sick and tired,
But you'll be a man, my son.

Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again.
So take a deep breath;
Pick yourself up;
Dust yourself off;
Start all over again.

FRED:

I'll get some self assurance
If your endurance is great.
I'll learn by easy stages
If you're courageous and wait.

To feel the strength I want to,
I must hang onto your hand.
Maybe by the time I'm fifty,
I'll get up and do a nifty.

(dance and dialogue)

Pick yourself up; dust yourself off;
Start all over again.

(dance and dialogue)

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fred astaire
• ginger roger
• swing time
• musical film
• pick yourself up
• hermes pan
• jerome kern
• polka dance dancer
• tap dance
• dancing
• black and white
• movie
• fred and ginger

[BarSystemsClarinda]

If i could dance like this, would i be gay??? more importantly, if i could dance like this, would I care?

[yenrab713]

Glamour. Class.Can't find it today quite like these two... Thumbs UP!

[KeepITtoUrselfMan]

God they must've been tired after all that dancing.

[clowicous]

I'll always remember rewinding this part over and over again at my Grandmas house mostly because that's what ruined the video tape ... if only there was dvds and youtube then.

[ricex210]

Jesus fucking Christ.

[jennbode01]

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, But backwards and in heels. :-) I live by this motto whenever i perform swing routines! lol

[gwinniboots]

Fantastic!! My favourite dance sequence of theirs. Timing and energy, marvellous.

[ctmjmj]

Love Astaire and Rogers, and the song! lol :)

[RJRamirezVidz]

@BarSystemsClarinda if ur dance partner is sum1 like her, i dont think u'd b considered gay lol

[polkadotpolka123]

this is by far my fave dance routine of theirs!!