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CELL BLOCK TANGO ANNOUNCER And now the six merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail in their rendition of the "Cell Block Tango." LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE SongtexteSquish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! ALL He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself to blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it VELMA I betcha you would have done the same! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! ALL He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself to blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it VELMA I betcha you would have done the same! LIZ Pop. ANNIE Six. JUNE Squish. HUNYAK Uh-Uh. VELMA Cicero. MONA Lipschitz! LIZ GIRLS You know how people have these little habits that get you down. Like Bernie. Bernie liked to chew gum. No, not chew. Pop. Well, came home this one day and I am really irritated, looking for a little sympathy and there's Bernie layin' on the couch, drinkin' a beer and chewin'. No, not chewin' Popin'. So, I said to him, said, "Bernie, you pop that gum one more time..." And he did! He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself to blame I If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it and I betcha you would Have done the same! He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself to blame. I If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha you would Have done the same! LIZ So I took the shotgun off the wall and fired two warning shots... ...into his head. ALL He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself to blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have heard it I betcha you would Have done the same! ANNIE GIRLS I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two years ago and he told me he was single and we hit it off right away. So, we started living together. He'd go to work, he'd come work, I'd mix him a drink, we'd have dinner. Well, it was like heaven in two and a half rooms. And then I found out, "Single" he told me? Single, my ass. Not only was he married. ...oh, no, he had six wives. One of those Mormons, you know. So that night when he came home. I mixed him his drink as usual. He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself To blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha you would Have done the same! He had it coming He had it coming He only had himself To blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha you would Have done the same! ANNIE You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic! LIZ, ANNIE, JUNE, MONA, VELMA & HUNYAK Hah! He had it coming Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-Uh, He had it coming Cicero, Lipschitz! He took a flower In its prime And the he used it Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-Uh, And he abused it Cicero, Lipschitz! It was a murder But not a crime! JUNE GIRLS Now, I'm standing in the kitchen carvin' up the chicken for dinner, minding my own business, and in storms my husband Wilbur, in a jealous rage. "You been screwin' the milkman," he says. He was crazy and he kept on screamin' "You been screwin' the milkman," Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-Uh, Cicero, Lipschitz! Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-Uh, Cicero, Lipschitz! Pop, Six, Squish, Uh-Uh, Cicero, Lipschitz! JUNE And then he ran into my knife! He ran into my knife TEN TIMES! ALL If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha you would have done the same! HUNYAK Mit keresek, enn itt? Azt mondjok, hogy lakem lefogta a ferjemet en meg lecsaptam a fejet. De nem igaz, en artatlan vagyok. Nem tudom mert mondja Uncle Sam hogy en tetten. Probaltam a rendorsegen megmagyarazni de nem ertettek meg... JUNE Yeah, but did you do it? HUNYAK UH UH, not guilty! VELMA GIRLS My sister, Veronica, and I did this double act and my husband, Charlie, used to travel round with us. Now for the last number in our act, we did these 20 acrobatic tricks in a row, one, two, three, four, five... Splits, spread eagles, back flips, flip flops, one right after the other. Well, this one night we are in Cicero, the three of us, sittin' up in a hotel room, boozin' and havin' a few laughs and we ran out of ice, so I went out to get some. I come back, open the door And there's Veronica and Charlie doing Number Seventeen -the spread eagle. He had it coming He had it coming He only had Himself To blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha You would Have done The same! He had It coming He had It coming... VELMA Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out. I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands I even knew they were dead. They had it coming They had it coming They had it coming all along. I didn't do it But if I'd done it How could you tell me that I was wrong? VELMA & GIRLS They had it coming They had it coming They had it coming They had it coming They had it coming They took a flower All along In its prime I didn't do it And then they used it But if I'd done it And they abused it How could you tell me It was a murder That I was wrong? But not a crime! MONA GIRLS I love Alvin Lipschitz More than I can possibly say. He was a real artistic guy... Sensitive...a painter. But he was troubled. He was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself and along the way he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary and Irving. He had it coming He had it coming He only had Himself To blame. If you'd have been There If you'd have seen it I betcha You would Have done The same! MONA I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead. ALL The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum LIZ, ANNIE, MONA, VELMA, JUNE, HUNYAK They had it comin' They had it comin' They had it comin' They had it comin' They had it comin' They had it comin' All along All along 'Cause if they used us 'Cause if they used us And they abused us And they abused us How could you tell us How could you tell us That we were wrong? That we were wrong? VELMA, JUNE, HUNYAK He had it coming He had it coming He only had Himself To blame. If you'd have been there If you'd have seen it I betcha You would Have done The same! LIZ You pop that gum one more time! ANNIE Single my ass. JUNE Ten times! HUNYAK Miert csukott Uncle Sam bortonbe. VELMA Number Seventeen - the spread eagle. MONA Artistic differences. ALL I betcha you would have done the same! Aus Songtexte Mania