Nina chords by
Peter Pringle
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Key: Bb major
Intro 1
E
E

C
C

E
E

Am
Am

A
A

B
B

E
E

F#m
F#m

A
A

B
B

E
E

Verse 1
E
E

Señorita Nina from Argentina,
all the answers
G#m
G#m

Though all her relatives and friends
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B

were perfect dancers
She swore she'd never dance
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E

a step until she died
G#m
G#m

E
E

She said, I've seen too many movies
and all they prove is too idiotic
G#m
G#m

They all insisted that South
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B

America was exotic,
whereas it couldn't be more
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E

boring if it tried.
Ddim
Ddim

C#
C#

G#
G#

F#
F#

She added firmly that she hated
the sound of soft guitars
G#m
G#m

C#
C#

beside a still moon.
E
E

A
A

And then she positively stated
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G#

that she could not abide a southern moon.
C#
C#

She said, I hate to be pedantic,
but I'm driven nearly frantic
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B

A
A

when I see that unromantic,
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G#

sycophantic lot of sluts.
B
B

G#
G#

Forever wriggling their guts
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B

G#m
G#m

G#
G#

Drives me absolutely nut s
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A

G#
G#

E
E

She refused to
Eaug
Eaug

E
E

begin the begin
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Eaug

E
E

Eaug
Eaug

When they requested it
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E

B
B

E
E

An d she made an
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Eaug

embarrassing scene
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E

D
D

If anyone suggested it
C#
C#

D
D

C#
C#

F#
F#

B
B

For she detested it
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E

Senorita Nina, from Argentina,
despised the tango
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G#m

Although she never was
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B

a girl to let a man go
She wouldn't sacrifice her
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E

principals for sex
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B

E
E

She'd look with scorn on the gyrations
of her relations
who danced the conga
G#m
G#m

And swore that if she had
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B

to stand it any longer
She'd lose all dignity and
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E

wring their silly
C#
C#

G#m
G#m

F#
F#

She said that, frankly, she was blinded
to all their over -advertised
G#m
G#m

C#
C#

ro mantic charms.
E
E

A
A

And then she got more bloody -minded
and told them where to put
C#m
C#m

A
A

G#
G#

Am
Am

their tropic palms.
G#
G#

She said with most refresh
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G#m

C#m
C#m

ing candour
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C#

that she thought Carmen Miranda
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B

was subversive propaganda
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A

G#m
G#m

G#
G#

and should rapidly be shot.
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B

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G#

And that she didn't care a jot
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B

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G#

A
A

G#
G#

if people quoted her or not.
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E

Eaug
Eaug

She declined to begin the begin,
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E

Eaug
Eaug

E
E

Eaug
Eaug

though they besought her to.
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E

B
B

E
E

An d with language pro
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Eaug

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E

fane and obscene,
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D

she cursed the man who taught her to.
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C#

D
D

C#
C#

F#
F#

She cursed Cole Porter to.
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B

From this it's fairly clear
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E

that Nina, in her demeanour,
was so offensive,
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G#m

That when the hatred of her friends
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B

grew too in tensive
She thought she'd better beat it
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E

while she had the chance
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Am

E
E

After some trial and tribulation
She reached a station and met a sailor
G#m
G#m

Who had acquired a
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B

wooden leg in Venezuela
And so she married him
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E

because he couldn't dance
G#m
G#m

E
E

There surely never could
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Am

have been a
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D

G
G

More irritating girl than Nina
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E

Am
Am

They never speak in Argentina
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B

Of this degenerate Pampina
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B

Who had the luck to find romance
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Am

Am
Am

Then resolutely would
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E

C
C

E
E

C
C

n't dance
She wouldn't dance, oh no!

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