The Cell Block Tango Songtext / Lyric

"And now, the six merry murderesses of the Cook 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!
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 bet you, you would have done the same

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

"You know how people have these little habits that get you down? Like, Bernie. Bernie, he like to chew gum. No - not chew. Pop! So I came home this one day and I'm really irritated and I'm looking for a little bit of sympathy. And there's Bernie, laying on the couch, drinking a beer, and chewing. No - not chewing. Popping! So I said to him, I said: '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
If you'd have been there, if you'd have heard it
I bet you, you would have done the same

"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, and we'd have dinner. And then I found out: 'Single', he told me!? Single my butt! Not only was he married, oh no! He had six wives! One of those mormons, you know? So, that night when he came home from work, 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!
(Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!)
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, carving up the chicken for dinner, mind in my own business, in storms my husband Wilbrin in a jealous rage. 'You been doin' the milkman, he says?' He was crazy. And he kept on screaming: 'You been doin' the milkman!' And then he ran into my knife - he ran into my knife ten times."

The dirty bum-bum-bum-bum-bum
The dirty bum-bum-bum-bum-bum

They had it coming! (They had it coming!)
They had it coming! (They had it coming!)
They had it coming all along!
'Cause if they used us and they abused us,
How could you tell us that we were wrong?
Could you tell us that we were wrong??