所属专辑:Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Noel Coward Live in las Vegas
歌手: Noel Coward
时长: 04:03
Nina - Noel Coward[00:00:00]
Written by:Coward[00:00:04]
Seсorita Nina from Argentina knew all the answers[00:00:26]
Though her relatives and friends were perfect dancers[00:00:30]
She swore she'd never dance a step until she died[00:00:32]
She said I've seen too many movies and all they prove is too idiotic[00:00:36]
They all insist that South America's exotic[00:00:40]
Where it couldn't be more boring if it tried[00:00:43]
She added firmly that she hated[00:00:47]
The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon[00:00:49]
She also positively stated[00:00:52]
That she could not abide a Southern moon[00:00:54]
She refused to Begin The Beguine when they requested it[00:00:57]
And she made an embarrassing scene if anyone suggested it[00:01:03]
For she detested it[00:01:08]
Though no one ever could be keener than little Nina[00:01:14]
On quite a number of very eligible men who did the rhumba[00:01:17]
When they proposed to her she simply left them flat[00:01:21]
She said that love should be impulsive but not convulsive[00:01:24]
And syncopation had a discouraging effect on procreation[00:01:29]
And that she'd rather read a book and that was that[00:01:34]
Seс orita Nina from Argentina despised the Tango[00:01:46]
Although she never was a girl to let a man go[00:01:50]
She wouldn't sacrifice her principles for sex[00:01:53]
She looked with scorn on the gyrations[00:01:56]
Of her relations who danced the conga[00:01:58]
And swore that if she had to stand it any longer[00:02:01]
She'd lose all dignity and wring their silly necks[00:02:04]
She said that frankly she was blinded[00:02:07]
To all the over advertised romantic charms[00:02:10]
And then she got more bloody minded[00:02:15]
And told them where to put their tropic palms[00:02:17]
She said I hate to be pedantic but I'm driven nearly frantic[00:02:20]
When I see that unromantic sycophantic lot of sluts[00:02:23]
Forever wriggling their guts[00:02:27]
It drives me absolutely nuts[00:02:30]
She declined to Begin The Beguine when they besought her to[00:02:33]
And with language profane and obscene she cursed the man who taught her to[00:02:39]
She cursed Cole Porter too[00:02:45]
From this it's fairly clear that Nina in her demeanour[00:02:51]
Was so offensive that when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive[00:02:55]
She thought she'd better beat it while she had the chance[00:02:59]
After some trial and tribulation she reached the station[00:03:03]
And met a sailor who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela[00:03:08]
And so he married him because he couldn't dance[00:03:12]
There surely never could've been a[00:03:16]
More irritating girl than Nina[00:03:19]
They never speak in Argentina[00:03:22]
Of this degenerate bambina[00:03:24]
Who had the luck to find romance[00:03:28]
But resolutely wouldn't dance[00:03:33]
She would dance for it[00:03:41]