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THE CHEF WAS FAMOUS FROM HERE TO THERE
PEOPLE KNEW HIM EVERYWHERE
HE WENT TO PARIS HE WENT TO ROME
HIS FAME WAS SUCH HE WAS NEVER HOME

HE TOSSED GREEN SALADS, HE MIXED WILD RICE
HE KNEW HIS WINE AND EVERY SPICE
THE CRITICS SAID HE WAS NUMBER ONE
A FIVE-STAR GUY AND A LOT OF FUN

BUT WHEN FRUIT BOWLS HE HAD TO FASHION
HE DEEPLY LONGED FOR HIS SECRET PASSION
HIS ARMS WOULD TWITCH, HIS LEGS WOULD MOVE
HIS BODY WOULD CATCH THAT FRUITY GROOVE

HE WOULD DANCE THE MANGO TANGO
HE WOULD MOVE FROM EVERY ANGLE
FLUiD MOTION AROUND THE FLOOR
THE EXCITED CROWD CALLING OUT FOR MORE

HE LOVED THE FRUIT THAT BEGINS WITH M
HE ATE THEM ALL BUT STAYED QUITE TRIM
BODY WAS IN SHAPE HE HAD NO BELLY
SLEEK AND SLIM FOR HIS LOVE OF ELE

SHE COULD DANCE LIKE THE WIND IN TREES
SHE OFTEN BROUGHT HIM TO HIS KNEES
SHE WOULD WHIRL AND JIGGLE JANGLE
HER DREAM DANCE WAS THE MANGO TANGO

THEY WOULD DANCE THE MANGO TANGO
THEY WOULD MOVE FROM EVERY ANGLE
POETRY ON THE STATELY FLOOR
THE EXCITED CROWD CALLING OUT FOR MORE

HE GAVE HER A BLUE IMMORTAL ROSE
CALLING ON THE POWER OF THOSE
WHOSE MYSTERY LIVES GO ON FOREVER
TIES TO HER NO ONE COULD SEVER

THEN THEY LIVED A LIFE OF SPLENDOR
HE NO LONGER HAD TO RENDER
BOUILLABAISSE AND SOUP DU JOUR
THEY WERE UNDER THE MANGO’S LURE

THEY WOULD DANCE THE MANGO TANGO
THEY WOULD MOVE FROM EVERY ANGLE
IMMORTAL GLIDING AROUND THE FLOOR
SWIRLING IN MOONLIGHT EVERMORE

THEY WOULD DANCE THE MANGO TANGO
THEY WOULD MOVE FROM EVERY ANGLE
POETRY ON THE STATELY FLOOR
THE EXCITED CROWD CALLING OUT FOR MORE

 



 

 

 

 

 


© 2008 John Paynter
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