| Senorita Nina, from Argentina, knew all the answers | 
| Although her relatives and friends were perfect dancers | 
| She swore she’d never dance a step until she died | 
| She said, «I've seen too many movies | 
| And all they prove is | 
| Too idiotic | 
| They all insist that South America’s exotic | 
| Whereas it couldn’t be more boring if it tried. | 
| " | 
| She added firmly that she hated | 
| The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon | 
| She also positively stated | 
| That she could not abide a Southern moon | 
| She said with most refreshing candor | 
| That she thought Carmen Miranda | 
| Was subversive propaganda | 
| And should rapidly be shot | 
| She said she didn’t care a jot | 
| If people quoted her or not | 
| She refused to Begin The Beguine when they requested it | 
| And she made an embarrassing scene if anyone suggested it | 
| For she detested it | 
| Though no-one ever could be keener than little Nina | 
| On quite a number of very eligible men who did the rhumba | 
| When they proposed to her she simply left them flat | 
| She said that love should be impulsive, but not convulsive | 
| And syncopation had a discouraging effect on procreation | 
| And that she’d rather read a book and that was that | 
| Senorita Nina, from Argentina, despised the Tango | 
| Although she never was a girl to let a man go | 
| She wouldn’t sacrifice her principles for sex | 
| She looked with scorn on the gyrations | 
| Of her relations who did the conga | 
| And said that if she had to stand it any longer | 
| She’d lose all dignity and wring their silly necks | 
| She said that frankly she was blinded | 
| To all their over advertised romantic charms | 
| And then she got more bloody minded | 
| And told them where to put their tropic palms | 
| She said, «I hate to be pedantic | 
| But it drives me nearly frantic | 
| When I see that unromantic, sycophantic lot of sluts | 
| Forever wriggling their guts | 
| It drives me absolutely nuts. | 
| " | 
| She declined to Begin The Beguine though they besought her to | 
| And in language profane and obscene she cursed the man who taught her to | 
| She cursed Cole Porter too | 
| From this it’s fairly clear that Nina, in her demeanour | 
| Was so offensive that when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive | 
| She thought she’d better beat it while she had the chance | 
| After some trial and tribulation, she reached the station | 
| And met a sailor, who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela | 
| And so he married him, because he couldn’t dance | 
| There surely never could’ve been a | 
| More irritating girl than Nina | 
| They never speak in Argentina | 
| Of this degenerate bambina | 
| Who had the luck to find romance | 
| But resolutely wouldn’t da- | 
| She wouldn’t dance | 
| Hola! |