《Nina》歌词

[00:00:00] Nina - Noel Coward

[00:00:01] Written By：Noël Coward

[00:00:43] Seсorita Nina from Argentina knew all the answers

[00:00:47] Though her relatives and friends were perfect dancers

[00:00:49] She swore she'd never dance a step until she died

[00:00:53] She said

[00:00:53] I've seen too many movies and all they prove is too idiotic

[00:00:56] They all insist that South America's exotic

[00:01:00] Where's it couldn't be more boring if it tried

[00:01:04] She added firmly that she hated

[00:01:05] The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon

[00:01:10] She also positively stated

[00:01:11] That she could not abide a Southern moon

[00:01:15] She said I hate to be pedantic but

[00:01:17] I'm driven nearly frantic

[00:01:18] When I see that unromantic sycophantic lot of

[00:01:22] Forever wriggling their guts

[00:01:25] It drives me absolutely nuts

[00:01:28] She refused to

[00:01:29] Begin

[00:01:30] The Beguine when they requested it

[00:01:34] And she made an embarrassing scene

[00:01:37] If anyone suggested it

[00:01:40] For she detested it

[00:01:45] Though no one ever could be keener than little Nina

[00:01:49] On quite a number of very eligible men who did the rhumba

[00:01:53] When they proposed to her she simply left them flat

[00:01:56] She said that love should be impulsive

[00:02:00] But not convulsive

[00:02:01] And syncopation had a discouraging effect on procreation

[00:02:05] And that she'd rather read a book and that was that

[00:02:17] Seсorita Nina from Argentina despised the Tango

[00:02:21] Although she never was a girl to let a man go

[00:02:24] She wouldn't sacrifice her principles for

[00:02:28] She looked with scorn on the gyrations

[00:02:29] Of her relations who danced the conga

[00:02:32] And swore that if she had to stand it any longer

[00:02:35] She'd lose all dignity and wring their silly necks

[00:02:38] She said that frankly she was blinded

[00:02:40] To all the over advertised romantic charms

[00:02:44] And then she got more bloody minded

[00:02:46] And told them where to put their tropic palms

[00:02:49] And she could not refrain from saying

[00:02:51] That their idiotic swaying

[00:02:52] And those damned guitarras playing

[00:02:54] Were an insult to her race

[00:02:56] And that she really couldn't face

[00:02:59] Such international disgrace

[00:03:02] She declined to

[00:03:04] Begin

[00:03:04] The Beguine when they besought her to

[00:03:09] And with language profane and obscene

[00:03:11] She cursed the man who taught her to

[00:03:14] She cursed Cole Porter too

[00:03:19] From this it's fairly clear that Nina

[00:03:21] In her demeanour

[00:03:22] Was so offensive that

[00:03:24] When the hatred of her friends grew too intensive

[00:03:27] She thought she'd better beat it

[00:03:28] While she had the chance

[00:03:30] After some trial and tribulation

[00:03:34] She reached the station

[00:03:35] And met a sailor

[00:03:36] Who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela

[00:03:39] And so he married him because he couldn't dance

[00:03:43] There surely never could've been a

[00:03:45] More irritating girl than Nina

[00:03:48] They never speak in Argentina

[00:03:51] Of this degenerate bambina

[00:03:54] Who had the luck to find romance

[00:03:58] But resolutely wouldn't dance