Noel Coward - Nina

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From: Gareth Owen 
Date: 18 Oct 2002 18:52:54 +0200


Nina - Noel Coward
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Arranged for easy guitar by Gaz Owen

E7       A                                  A/B
Señorita Nina, from Argentina, knew all the answers
A          E                                  Bm7
Though her relatives and friends were perfect dancers
E7              Bm7           E7             A
She swore she'd never dance a step until she died

E7                            A                                    A/B
She said, "I've seen too many movies, and all they prove is too idiotic.
A        E                             Bm7
They all insist that South America's exotic
E7         Bm7              E            A
Whereas it couldn't be more boring if it tried."

[tacet]                   B
She added firmly that she hated
                                   C#m7     C#m7/F#
The sound of soft guitars beside a still lagoon
F#       A7         D
She also positively stated
                                    C#7
That she could not abide a Southern moon

C#7                      F#m                          E
She said "I hate to be pedantic but I'm driven nearly frantic
                    Bm7                        C#7
When I see that unromantic, sycophantic lot of sluts
G#o                     C#7
Forever wriggling their guts.
G#o                     C#7
It drives me absolutely nuts."

      A/E        A/F       A/F#       A/F    A       A/F   F#m
She refused to Begin The Beguine when they requested it
        A/E       A/F        A/F#              G#o
And she made an embarrassing scene if anyone suggested it
C#o       F#         [tacet]
For she detested it.

E7                          A
Though no-one ever could be keener than little Nina
                          E        F#m             Bm7
On quite a number of very eligible men who did the rhumba
E7           Bm7              E7               A
When they proposed to her she simply left them flat.
E7                           Am             Dm     Am
She said that love should be impulsive, but not convulsive
         A               E                         Bm7
And syncopation had a discouraging effect on procreation
               E7                              A
And that she'd rather read a book and that was that.

E7       A                                  A/B
Señorita Nina, from Argentina, despised the Tango
A            E                         Bm7
Although she never was a girl to let a man go
E7           Bm7           E7             A
She wouldn't sacrifice her principles for sex.

E7                             A
She looked with scorn on the gyrations 
                                A/B
Of her relations who danced the conga
A              E                          Bm7
And swore that if she had to stand it any longer
E7             Bm7         E                A
She'd lose all dignity and ring their silly necks.

[tacet]                       B
She said that frankly she was blinded
                             Cm#7   C#m7/F#
To all the over advertised romantic charms
F#           A7              E
And then she got more bloody minded
                                        C#7
And told them where to put their tropic palms.

C#7                            F#m                       E
And she could not refrain from saying that their idiotic swaying
                           Bm7                           C#7
And those damned guitarras playing were an insult to her race
G#o7                         C#7
And that she really couldn't face
G#o7               C#7
Such international disgrace

       A/E        A/F       A/F#       A/F    A      A/F    F#m
She declined to Begin The Beguine when they besought her to
         A           A/F         A/F#                        G#o
And with language profane and obscene she cursed the man who taught her to
C#o7            F#           [tacet]
She cursed Cole Porter too.

E7                              A
From this its fairly clear that Nina, in her demeanour
                               E             F#m                Bm7
Was so offensive that when the hatred of her friends grew too intensive
E7                Bm7            E7                A
She thought she'd better beat it while she had the chance

E7                        Am          Dm          Am
After some trial and tribulation, she reached the station
          A               E                            Bm7
And met a sailor, who had acquired a wooden leg in Venezuela
          E7                               A
And so he married him, because he couldn't dance.

A            Am             Dm
There surely never could've been a
G7                        Cmaj7
More irritating girl than Nina
Gm         Asus4    A7   Dm
They never speak in Argentina
Bm                    E7
Of this degenerate bambina
            Am            E7
Who had the luck to find romance
Eaug                    A
But resolutely wouldn't dance.

-- 
Gareth Owen
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