Nina 创作者：
Noël Coward
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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Señorita Nina, from Argentina,
knew all the answers
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Though her relatives and friends
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were perfect dancers
She swore she'd never dance
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a step until she died

Verse 2
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She said, "I've seen too many movies,
and all they prove is too idiotic.
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They all insist that South
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America's exotic
Whereas it couldn't be
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more boring if it tried."

Verse 3
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She added firmly that she hated
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The sound of soft guitars
beside a still lagoon
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She also positively stated
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That she could not abide a Southern moon

Verse 4
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She said "I hate to be pedantic
but I'm driven nearly frantic
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When I see that unromantic,
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sycophantic lot of sluts
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Forever wriggling their guts.
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It drives me  absolutely nuts."
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She re fused

Verse 5
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to Begin The Beguine
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when they requested it
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And she made an embarrassing scene
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if anyone suggested it
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For she detested it.
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Verse 6
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Though no- one ever could
be keener than little Nina
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On quite a number of very eligible
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men who did the rhumba
When they proposed to her she
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simply left them flat.
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She said that love should be im  pulsive,
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but not convulsive
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And syncopation had
a discouraging effect on procreation
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And that she'd rather read a book
and that was that.
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Señorita Nina, from Argentina, despised the Tango

Verse 7

Although she never

was a girl to let a man go

She wouldn't sacrifice

Verse 8
her principles for sex.
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She looked with scorn on the gyrations
Of her relations who danced the conga
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And swore that if she had to stand
it any longer
She'd lose all dignity and
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ring their silly necks.

Verse 9
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She said that frankly she was blinded To all the
over advertised
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ro  mantic charms
And then she got more
bloody minded
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And told them where to
put their tropic palms.

Verse 10
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And she could not refrain from saying
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that their idi otic swaying
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And those damned guitarras playing
were an insult to her race
And that she really couldn't face
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Such international disgrace

Verse 11
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She declined to Begin The Beguine
when they besought her to
And with language profane and obscene
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she    cursed the man who taught her to
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She cursed Cole Porter too.
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Verse 12
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From this its fairly clear that Nina,
in her demeanour
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Was so offensive that when the hatred
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of her friends grew too intensive
She thought she'd better beat it while
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she had the chance

Verse 13
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After some trial and tribulation,
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she reached the station
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And met a sailor,
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who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela
And so he married him,
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because he couldn't dance.
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There surely never could've

Verse 14
been a
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More irritating girl than Nina
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They never speak in Argentina
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Of this degenerate bambina
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Who had the luck to find romance
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But resolutely would
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n't
dance.