Wednesday, February 13, 2008

"Tangerine"

[male voice sings]
"Tangerine!
She is all they claim
With her eyes of night and
Lips as bright as flame.

Tangerine!
When she dances by
Senoritas stare and
Caballeros sigh.

And I've seen toasts to Tangerine
Raised in every bar across the Argentine;

Yes, she has them all on the run
But her heart belongs to just one...
Her heart belongs to Tangerine....

[female voice sings]
"Tangerine!
She is all they say
With mascared eyes and chapeau by Dache.

Tangerine!
With her lips of flame,
If the color keeps, Louis Philippe's to blame.

And I've seen
Clothes on Tangerine
Where the label says "From Macy's Mezzanine".

Yes, she has the boys in a whirl,
But she's only fooling ome girl;
She's only fooling Tangerine."

after Lyrics by Johnny Mercer;
_The Fleet's In_, a 1942 movie, introduced this hit song

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