Carmen with your coal-black hair
And a carnation stuck in there.
Clacking with your Cuban heels
Dancing rondolays and reels.
Underneath your Flamenco dress
Calf and ankle,are exposed
We can visualise the rest
As you look down your haughty nose.
Hold your castenets up high
Slender arms reach to the sky.
Tourists flock in from the street
Brave tobacco smoke and heat
Drink their Anis, coolly iced
Nibble tapas, highly spiced.
Many men ask you for dates
But you have to wash the plates.
On again at half-past eleven
Your night will end at half-past seven.
Slink away to find your bed
Romance? No, you feel half dead.
Bizet`s Carmen never this,
A tired and worn-out Gypsy miss.
Author notes
Anis: Aniseed, popular in Andalucia and as Pastis in France.
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Very cool. I am niot familiar with this character but I get the jist of it. It is a sad existence I guess ti be constantly pleasing others.
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I liked this. Carmen is a total slut and a major pricktease. She went for anything in tight pants with a big bulge. I shall shortlist this on the assumption you know how to spell coolly really and just put that in to test me.
This is an excellent couplet:
"Many men ask you for dates
But you have to wash the plates."
even if I do not recall it from any production I have seen.
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