Nina chords by
Peter Pringle
Peter Pringle

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Key: Bb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Señorita Nina from Argentina,
all the answers
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Though all 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
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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 insisted that South
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America was exotic,
whereas it couldn't be more
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boring if it tried.
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She added firmly that she hated
the sound of soft guitars
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beside a still moon.
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And then she positively stated
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that she could not abide a southern moon.
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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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Drives me absolutely nut s
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She refused to
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begin the begin
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When they requested it
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An d she made an
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embarrassing scene
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If anyone suggested it
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For she detested it
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Senorita Nina, from Argentina,
despised the tango
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Although she never was
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a girl to let a man go
She wouldn't sacrifice her
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principals for sex
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She'd look with scorn on the gyrations
of her relations
who danced the conga
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And swore that if she had
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to stand it any longer
She'd lose all dignity and
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wring their silly
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She said that, frankly, she was blinded
to all their over -advertised
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ro mantic charms.
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And then she got more bloody -minded
and told them where to put
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their tropic palms.
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She said with most refresh
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ing candour
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that she thought Carmen Miranda
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was subversive propaganda
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and should rapidly be shot.
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And that she didn't care a jot
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if people quoted her or not.
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She declined to begin the begin,
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though they besought her to.
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An d with language pro
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fane and obscene,
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she cursed the man who taught her to.
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She cursed Cole Porter to.
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From this it's fairly clear
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that Nina, in her demeanour,
was so offensive,
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That when the hatred of her friends
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grew too in tensive
She thought she'd better beat it
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while she had the chance
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After some trial and tribulation
She reached a station and met a sailor
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Who had acquired a
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wooden leg in Venezuela
And so she married him
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because he couldn't dance
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There surely never could
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have 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 Pampina
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Who had the luck to find romance
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Then resolutely would
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n't dance
She wouldn't dance, oh no!

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