Original Broadway Cast - Tango: Maureen lyrics

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JOANNE

(Talking)

Mark?

MARK

Hi.

JOANNE

I told her not to call you.

MARK

That's Maureen

But can I help since I'm here?

JOANNE

I hired and engineer...

MARK

Great!

Well, nice to have met you.

JOANNE

Wait!

She's three hours late.

(Singing)

The samples won't delay

But the cable -

MARK

There's another way.

Say something - Anything.

JOANNE

Test - One, two, three...

MARK

Anything but that.

JOANNE

This is weird...

MARK

It's weird.

JOANNE

Very weird -

MARK

Fuckin' weird.

JOANNE

I'm so mad

That I don't know what to do.

Fighting with microphones,

Freezing down to my bones,

And to top it all off

I'm with you.

MARK

Feel like going insane?

Got a fire in your brain?

And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?

JOANNE

As a matter of fact -

MARK

Honey, I know this act.

It's called, the 'Tango Maureen'.

The Tango Maureen...

It's a dark, dizzy

Merry-go-round.

As she keeps you dangling -

JOANNE

You're wrong.

MARK

Your heart she is mangling -

JOANNE

It's different with me -

MARK

And you toss and you turn

'Cause her cold eyes can burn.

Yet you yearn and you churn and rebound.

JOANNE

I think I know what you mean...

BOTH

The Tango Maureen.

MARK

Has she ever

Pouted her lips

And called you 'Pookie'?

JOANNE

Never.

MARK

Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?

JOANNE

This is... spooky.

Did you swoon

When she walked through the door?

MARK

Every time - so be... cautious.

JOANNE

Did she moon over other boys--?

MARK

More than moon -

JOANNE

I'm getting... nauseous.

MARK

(Talking)

Where'd you learn to tango?

JOANNE

With the French Ambassador's daughter in her dorm room at Miss Porter's.

And you?

MARK

With Nanette Himmelfarb.

The Rabbi's daughter at the Scarsdale Jewish Community Center.

It's hard to do this backwards.

JOANNE

You should try it

In heels!

(Singing)

She cheated!

MARK

She cheated.

JOANNE

Maureen cheated.

MARK

Fuckin' cheated!

JOANNE

I'm defeated

I should give up right now.

MARK

Gotta look on the bright side

With all of your might.

JOANNE

I'd fall for her still anyhow.

BOTH

When you're dancing her dance

You don't stand a chance.

Her grip of romance

Makes you fall!

MARK

So you think, 'might as well' -

JOANNE

'Dance the Tango to Hell'!

BOTH

'At least I'll have Tangoed at all'

The tango Maureen...

Gotta dance til your diva is through.

You pretend to believe her...

'Cause in the end - you can't leave her.

But the end it will come,

Still you have to play dumb

Til you're glum and you bum

And turn blue.

MARK

Why do we love when she's mean?

JOANNE

And she can be so obscene...

MARK

(Talking)

Try the mike.

JOANNE

(Singing)

My Maureen (een, een, een...)

MARK

(Talking)

Patched.

JOANNE

Thanks.

MARK

You know - I feel great now!

JOANNE

I feel lousy.

(Answers phone)

Honey, we're... Pookie!

You never call me Pookie...

Forget it, we're patched.

BOTH

(Singing)

The Tango: Maureen!