Sides face grand square
Walkin' down new streets, music is loud
Neon sing bring in tumultuous crowds
But I'm just and old man, I'd probably get sore
'Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more
Allemande and weave
She and ol' Cougie, my what a pair
Doin' the rhumba as no one else dared
Slidin' and glidin' across Hollywood floors
But they don't dance like Carmen no more

Heads (Sides) promenade go halfway around
Down the middle and pass the ocean and extend that old tag
Swing thru and then, the boys you run right
Bend the line and do the right & left thru
Flutter wheel across and then slide thru
Swing with your corner and all promenade
Slidin' and glidin' across Hollywood floors
But they don't dance like Carmen no more

Sides face grand square
Well, now she had a big hat, my it was high
Had bananas and mangoes all piled to the sky
How she could balance it, I wouldn't dare
Cause they don't dance like Carmen nowhere
Four ladies promenade, snap your fingers high above your head like the castanets
Now swing and promenade
How she could balance it, I wouldn't dare
Cause they don't dance like Carmen nowhere

Sides face grand square
Ah, but the lady's not with us, she died long ago
And they don't play her movies on the late midnight shows
'Cause the kids would get restless and the grown-ups would snore
Cause they don't dance like Carmen no more
Allemande and weave
She and ol' Cougie, my what a pair
Doin' the rhumba as no one else dared
Slidin' and glidin' across Hollywood floors
But they don't dance like Carmen no more

Swing her
But they don't dance like Carmen no more