What is our life but a huge dancefloor
to the music coming from Above?
It's God who pushes people to dance;
it's the devil who chooses them partners.
Now people tend to pick easier dances,
it's fashionable to wag your ass now;
['everybody!']
But people like us dance the tango -
and it's very simple indeed.
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Just get this arm like this,
and that arm like that;
the leg goes like this.
This head goes like this,
look at me,
move to the beat.
When I do it like this
do it like that;
now turn around - that's right.
I don't think we shall ever meet again.
It's a pity we lack a sea and palms,
and the white night is really cold.
But the lower notes are deep and the higher notes are ripe*,
this is what the tango is famous for.
An evening gown, high heels,
don't mind the empty champagne bottle.
If you want to live and to croak beautifully
learn by heart this algorhythm and the lyrics.
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