THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES TANGO

Based on “Por Una Cabeza” by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera

Dancing in a tango

Suzy fantastico

Twirling round the floor as if upon her heels were wheels

I thought it divine

She’d be always mine

My heart it was thumping like I almost never feel

Then somehow I dropped her

ruining her coiffure

How that could have happened then  I’ll never know

She got up and stopped me

Took her fist and then she popped me

Beat me round the head

I deserved it I suppose

More than a memory

She’s more than a memory

Left me a memento

Of love forever lost

And the remnants of a rose

More than a memory

Left more than a memory

She left me with nothing

But a foolish grin

And a broken nose

Sandy was a demon

When she started dancing

Nobody in Argentina ever danced so well

She was like a fire

Every man’s desire

And in bed she did things to me that I’ll never tell

I spun her in the wall and

With all the tables falling

she got to her feet so furious with grace

She took her fingernails

The audience did shrink and pale

and raised her pretty hands

and slashed me cross the face 

More than a memory

She’s more than a memory

Left me not a kiss

But she with a hiss

Left me seeing stars

More than a memory

She’s more than a memory

Left me an awful face

Full of pain and scars

Sally said she loved me

Her perfume rose above me

I swore to her that I never ever do her any harm

She said she’d be true

Never leave me too

And at night she always kept me something more than warm

Then while we were dancing

The tango romancing

My ring caught on her bodice and it pulled her dress right off

Still I might have covered

Covered up my partner lover

If someone had not

Pulled the fire alarm

More than a memory

She’s more than a memory

More than the sweet thought of all her special charms

More than a memory

Left more than a memory

As we ran out of there

She pushed me down the stairs

And she broke my arm

More than a memory

They’re more than a memory

When I touch my aches, I remember what they meant

More than a memory

They’re more than a memory

They left me with these wounds

Imagined or real

They are permanent

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My version is based on the original recording by Carlos Gardel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p6R6AlIhjk&feature=fvst

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