Billy Elliott - Final Scene

I was just thinking that, of all the thousands and thousands of pop songs that have come and gone in my lifetime, the best single pop song, ever, when gauged by economy of words and cleverness, is T-Rex's first hit from 1970, "Ride A White Swan". No one ever wrote a better pop song than Marc Bolan!

That naturally led to the song's use at the very end of one of the best dance movies ever, 2000's "Billy Elliot". Movies don't come better than this! This scene makes me cry, every time.

More complete version of the song.



Ride it on out like a bird in the sky ways
Ride it on out like if you were a bird
Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam
Ride it on out like if you were a bird

Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown

Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane
Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong

Catch a bright star and a place it on your forehead
Say a few spells and baby, there you go
Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder
And in the morning you'll know all you know, oh

Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days
Wear a tall hat and a tatooed gown
Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane
Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong

Da-da-di-di-da, da-da-di-di-da ....