CELL BLOCK TANGO

No, not chewin'. Poppin'. So, I said to him,

And now the 6 merry murderesses of the cook county
I said, "you pop that gum one more time..."and he did.
jail in their rendition of the cell block tango
So I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired two
warning shots......into his head.
[LIZ]
Pop! [GIRLS]
[ANNIE] He had it coming
Six! He had it coming
[JUNE] He only had himself to blame
Squish! If you'd have been there
[HUNYAK] If you'd have heard it
Uh Uh I betcha you would
[VELMA] Have done the same!
Cicero
[MONA] [ANNIE (Spoken)]
Lipschitz! I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake city about two
years ago and he told me he was single and we hit it
Repeat x 4
off right away. So, we started living together.
(ALL] He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink,
He had it coming We'd have dinner. And then I found out, "Single" he
He had it coming told me? Single, my ass. Not only was he married
He only had himself to blame ...oh, no, he had six wives. One of those Mormons,
If you'd have been there you know. So that night, when he came home, I fixed
If you'd have seen it him his drink as usual. You know, some guys just can't
hold their arsenic.
[VELMA]
I betcha you would have done the same! [LIZ,ANNIE,JUNE,MONA]
Hah! He had it coming
[LIZ] He had it coming
Pop! He took a flower
[ANNIE] In its prime
Six! And then he used it
[JUNE] And he abused it
Squish! It was a murder
[HUNYAK] But not a crime!
Uh Uh (squeezing necklace)
[VELMA] [VELMA AND HUNYAK]
Cicero (smoke puffs) Pop, six, squish, uh-uh
[MONA] Cicero, Lipschitz
Lipschitz!

[JUNE (Spoken)]
[LIZ (Spoken)]
Now, I'm standing in the kitchen carvin' up the
You know how people have these little habits that get
chicken for dinner, minding my own business, and in
you down. Like Bernie. Bernie liked to chew gum.
storms my husband Wilbur, in a jealous rage.
No, not chew. POP. So I came home this one day
"You been screwin' the milkman," he says. He was
and I’m really irritated, and I'm looking for a bit of
crazy and he kept screamin', "you been screwin the
sympathy and there's Bernie layin' on the couch,
milkman." And then he ran into my knife.
drinkin' a beer and chewin'.
He ran into my knife ten times."
[ALL] [GIRLS]
If you'd have been there They took a flower
If you'd have seen it [VELMA]
I betcha you would have done the same! All along
[GIRLS]
[HUNYAK (Spoken)] In its prime
Mit keresek, nitt? Azt mondjk,hogy ahres lakem [VELMA]
lefogta a frjemet n meg lecsaptam a fejt. De nem igaz, I didn't do it
nrtatlan vagyok. Nem tudom mirt mondja Uncle Sam, [GIRLS]
hogyn tettem. Probltam a rendrs gen megmagyarzni And then they used it
de nem rtettk meg... [VELMA]
But if I'd done it
[JUNE (Spoken)] [GIRLS]
Yeah, but did you do it? And they abused it
[VELMA]
[HUNYAK] How could you tell me
UH UH, not guilty! [GIRLS]
It was a murder
[VELMA] [VELMA]
My sister, Veronica and I had this double act That I was wrong?
and my husband, Charlie,travelled around with us. [GIRLS]
Now, for the last number in our act, we did 20 But not a crime!
acrobatic tricks one two three four,five...splits, spread
[MONA]
eagles, back flips, flip flops, one right after the other.
Well, this one night we were in the hotel Cicero, I loved Alvin Lipschitz more than I can possibly say.
He was a real artistic guy...sensitive... a painter.
the three of us, boozin' and havin' a few laughs when
But he was always trying to find himself.
we run out of ice. So I went out to get some. I come
He'd go out every night looking for himself
back, open the door and there's Veronica and
Charlie doing Number Seventeen-the spread eagle. and on the way he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary and
Irving. I guess you can say we broke up because of
Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely
artistic differences. He saw himself as alive and I saw
blacked out. I can't remember a thing. It wasn't until
him dead.
later, when I was washing the blood off my hands
I even knew they were dead.
[ALL]
The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum
They had it coming
The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum
They had it coming
They had it coming all along
I didn't do it [LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
But if I'd done it They had it comin'
[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
How could you tell me that I was wrong?
They had it comin'
They had it coming

[GIRLS] [LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
They had it comin'
They had it coming
[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
[VELMA]
They had it comin'
They had it coming
[GIRLS] [LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
They had it coming They had it comin'
[VELMA] [VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
They had it coming They had it comin'
[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA] [JUNE]
All along Squish!
[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
All along [HUNYAK]
Uh Uh (squeezing necklace)
(ALL)

'Cause if they used us [VELMA]

'Cause if they used us Cicero (smoke puffs)

And they abused us

[MONA]
And they abused us
Lipschitz!
[LIZ,ANNIE,MONA]
How could you tell us
[VELMA,JUNE,HUNYAK]
How could you tell us

That we were wrong?

That we were wrong?

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 (Spoken)]
You pop that gum one more time!

[ANNIE (spoken)]
Single my ass.

[JUNE (Spoken)]
Ten times!

[HUNYAK (Spoken)]
Miert csukott Uncle Same bortonbe.

[VELMA (Spoken)]
Number seventeen-the spread eagle.

[MONA (Spoken)]
Artistic differences.
[LIZ]
Pop!

[ANNIE]
Six!