| Neon signs bring in tumultuous crowds
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| But I’m just an old man, I’d probably get sore
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| 'Cause they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| She and ol' Cougie, my what a pair
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| Jus' doin' the Rhumba as no one else dared
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| Slidin' and glidin' 'cross Hollywood floors
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| But they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| -- Spoken:
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| «Take it Marvin»
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| «Shk chk, shk chk, shk chk»
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| Well now she had a big hat, my it was high
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| Had bananas and mangos all piled to the sky
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| How she could balance it, I wouldn’t dare
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| But they don’t dance like Carmen nowhere
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| «Shk chk, shk chk, shk chk»
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| Ah but the lady’s not with us, she died long ago
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| And they don’t show her movies on late midnight shows
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| 'Cause the kids would get restless, and the grown-ups would snore
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| 'Cause they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| Well now she and old Cougie, my what a pair
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| Just doin' the Boogie as no one else dared
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| Slidin' and glidin' 'cross hardwood waxed floors
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| But they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| No more
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| No no no more
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| And I’m just an old man, I’d probably get sore
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| But they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| Nah they don’t dance like Carmen no more
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| Coda:
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| Ten cents dance, I might take a chance
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| But they don’t dance like Carmen no more |