As World War Two drew to a close a German soldier lay dying in the ruins of churchyard in central Dresden

As his life seeped away he took a pencil from his blood soaked coat and wrote some lyrics on to a small piece of paper which anticipated the dance craze some fifty years later

Dance dance to the army choir

Hide in the forest and avoid the fire

Dance

Dance

Dancenpleasure

Life is good

So much leisure

Verona is my home home city

Rome is good

Milan is witty

His did not finish the lyrics and a passing medic who found them next to his body placed them into a bottle a threw them into a nearby shell hole

They have remained there ever since

Today the site of the churchyard is a car park

Its patrons are totally unaware that buried deeply below the surface are the final lyrics of a German soldier called

Helmut Husski

Who died cuddling a white cat in a ruined churchyard in central Dresden as World War Two drew to a close