Where can one find the lyrics to 'Cell Block Tango'?

Answer 1

Cell Block Tango

Chicago The Musical

And now the six merry murderesses of the Crookem County Jail

In their rendition of 'The Cell Block Tango'

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!

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

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh Uh, Cicero, Lipschitz!

You know how people have these little habits

That get you down like Ernie

Ernie like to chew gum, no, not chew, Pop

Like, I come home this one day and there's Ernie

Layin' on the couch chewin', no, not chewin', poppin'

So, I said to him, I said

"Ernie, you pop that gum one more time" and he did

So I took the shotgun off the wall

And I fired two warning shots into his head

He had it coming, he had it coming

He only had himself to blame

I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City about two years ago

And he told me he was single and we hit it off right away

So, we started living together

He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, we'd have dinner.

Then I found out, single, my ass

Not only was he married, well, he had six wives

One of those Mormons, you know

So that night, when he came home

I fixed him his drink as usual

You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic

He had it coming, he had it coming

He took a flower in its prime

And then he used it and he abused it

It was a murder but not a crime

Now, I'm standing in the kitchen

Carvin' up the chicken for dinner

And in storms my husband Wilbrin in a jealous rage

"You been screwin' the milkman"

He says and he kept sayin'

"You been screwin the milkman"

Then he ran into my knife

He ran into my knife ten times

If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it

I betcha you would have done the same

Mit kersek, en itt? Azt mondjok, hogy a hires

Lakem lefogta a ferjemet en meg lecsaptam a fejet

De nem igaz, en artatlan vagyok

Nem tudom mert mondja Uncle Sam hogy en tettem

Probaltam a rendorsegen megmayarazni de nem ertettek meg

But did you do it?

Uh uh, not guilty

My sister, Veronica and I had this double act

And my husband, Charlie traveled around with us

With the last number in our act

We did 20 acrobatic tricks in our world

One two three four five, splits, spread eagles

Flip flops, back flips, one right after the other

Well, this one night we were in Cicero

The three of us, we were in this hotel room

Boozin' and havin' a few laughs and we ran out of ice

So I went out to get some

I come back, open the door

There's Veronica and Charlie

Doing number seventeen, the spread eagle

Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out

I can't remember a thing, it wasn't until later

When I was washing the blood off my hands

I even knew they were dead

They had it coming, they had it coming

They had it coming all along

I didn't do it, inspite if I'd done it

How could you tell me that I was wrong?

I loved Alvin Lipschitz, he was a real artistic guy, sensitive, a painter

But he was always trying to find himself

He go out every night looking for himself

And on the way, he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary and Irving

I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences

He saw himself as alive and I saw him dead

The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum

The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum

They had it comin', they had it comin'

They had it comin' all along

'Cause if they used us and they abused us

How could they tell us 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

You pop that gum one more time

Single my ass

Ten times

Miert csukott Uncle Sam bortonbe

Number seventeen, the spread eagle

Artistic differences

I betcha you would have done the same