Nina Songtext
von Peter Pringle
Nina Songtext
Señorita Nina
From Argentina
Knew all the answers
Though all her relatives and friends were perfect dancers
She swore she′d never dance a step until she died
She said, "I've seen too many movies
And all they prove is too idiotic
They all insist that South America′s exotic
Whereas it couldn't be more boring if it tried"
She added firmly that she hated
The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon
And then she positively stated
That she could not abide a southern moon
She said, "I hate to be pedantic
But I'm driven nearly frantic
When I see that unromantic
Sycophantic lot of sluts
Forever wriggling their guts
Drives me absolutely nuts"
She refused to begin the beguine
When they requested it
And she made an embarrassing scene
If anyone suggested it
For she detested it
Señorita Nina
From Argentina
Despised the tango
Although she never was a girl to let a man go
She wouldn′t sacrifice her principles for sex
She′d look with scorn on the gyrations
Of her relations
Who danced the conga
And swore that if she had to stand it any longer
She'd lose all dignity and wring their silly necks
She said that frankly she was blinded
To all their over-advertised romantic charms
And then she got more bloody-minded
And told them where to put their tropic palms
She said with most refreshing candor
That she thought Carmen Miranda
Was subversive propaganda
And should rapidly be shot
And that she didn′t care a jot
If people quoted her or not
She declined to begin the beguine
Though they besought her to
And with language profane and obscene
She cursed the man who taught her to
She cursed Cole Porter too
From this it's fairly clear that Nina
In her demeanor
Was so offensive
That when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive
She thought she′d better beat it while she had the chance
After some trial and tribulation
She reached the station
And met a sailor
Who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela
And so she married him because he couldn't dance
There surely never could have been a
More irritating girl than Nina
They never speak in Argentina
Of this degenerate bambina
Who had the luck to find romance
Then resolutely wouldn′t dance
She wouldn't dance
¡Hola!
From Argentina
Knew all the answers
Though all her relatives and friends were perfect dancers
She swore she′d never dance a step until she died
She said, "I've seen too many movies
And all they prove is too idiotic
They all insist that South America′s exotic
Whereas it couldn't be more boring if it tried"
She added firmly that she hated
The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon
And then she positively stated
That she could not abide a southern moon
She said, "I hate to be pedantic
But I'm driven nearly frantic
When I see that unromantic
Sycophantic lot of sluts
Forever wriggling their guts
Drives me absolutely nuts"
She refused to begin the beguine
When they requested it
And she made an embarrassing scene
If anyone suggested it
For she detested it
Señorita Nina
From Argentina
Despised the tango
Although she never was a girl to let a man go
She wouldn′t sacrifice her principles for sex
She′d look with scorn on the gyrations
Of her relations
Who danced the conga
And swore that if she had to stand it any longer
She'd lose all dignity and wring their silly necks
She said that frankly she was blinded
To all their over-advertised romantic charms
And then she got more bloody-minded
And told them where to put their tropic palms
She said with most refreshing candor
That she thought Carmen Miranda
Was subversive propaganda
And should rapidly be shot
And that she didn′t care a jot
If people quoted her or not
She declined to begin the beguine
Though they besought her to
And with language profane and obscene
She cursed the man who taught her to
She cursed Cole Porter too
From this it's fairly clear that Nina
In her demeanor
Was so offensive
That when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive
She thought she′d better beat it while she had the chance
After some trial and tribulation
She reached the station
And met a sailor
Who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela
And so she married him because he couldn't dance
There surely never could have been a
More irritating girl than Nina
They never speak in Argentina
Of this degenerate bambina
Who had the luck to find romance
Then resolutely wouldn′t dance
She wouldn't dance
¡Hola!
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