THEY DON'T DANCE LIKE CARMEN NO MORE
Album : "A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean"
Jimmy Buffett - 1975


Walkin' down new streets the music is loud,
Neon signs bring in tumultuous crowds,
But I'm just an old man, I'd prob'ly get sore;
'Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more.

She and old Cougie, my what a pair,
Doin' the Rhumba like no one else dared.
Slidin' and glidin' 'cross Hollywood floors;
But they don't dance like Carmen no more.

She had a big hat, my it was high,
Had bananas and mangos all piled to the sky,
And how she could balance it I wouldn't dare...
'Cause they don't dance like Carmen no where.

But the lady's not with us, she died long ago,
And they don't play her movies on late midnight shows,
'Cause the kids would get restless, and the grown-ups would snore...
'Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more... no more,
No they don't dance like Carmen no more.

She and old Cougie, my what a pair,
Doin' the Rhumba like no one else dared.
Slidin' and glidin' 'cross hardwood waxed floors;
But they don't dance like Carmen no more... no more...
No they don't dance like Carmen no more.



(Contributed by George Smith - September 2003)