| Cell Block Tango | |
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| Album: | Glee: The Music, The Complete Season Three |
| Released: | May 1 2012 |
| By: | Cast of Chicago |
| Sung by: | New Directions Girls |
| Solos: | Brittany, Mercedes, Santana, Sugar, and Tina |
| Place: | The April Rhodes Civic Pavilion |
| Episode: | Choke |
Cell Block Tango by Chicago is featured in Choke, the eighteenth episode of Season Three. It is sung by Brittany, Santana, Sugar, Mercedes and Tina, with Mike and Rory as dancers.
Cell Block Tango is the second number in the episode and is sung after Sue and Roz tell the five girls to sing a song about women feeling weak because of men as their assignment. It begins in the auditorium, and it switches to scenes of Beiste and Cooter at home, showing Cooter lashing out, getting closer to Beiste and showing her in tears. Beiste leaves the auditorium near tears halfway through the performance. Sue and Roz call the girls absolutely 'cray-cray' and tells them they failed to understand the assignment.
Lyrics[]
Mercedes:
And now, the six merry murderesses
Of the Cook County Jail
In their rendition of
Brittany:
Uh uh!
Mercedes:
"The Cell Block Tango"
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Santana and Tina with Sugar and Brittany:
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
Santana:
I betcha you would have done the same
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Tina:
Pop!
Sugar:
Six!
Brittany:
Squish!
Sugar:
Uh uh!
Santana:
Cicero!
Sugar:
Lipschitz!
Tina (Brittany, Santana and Sugar):
(He had it coming) You know how people have these little habits (He had it coming)
That get you down like Bernie (He only had himself to blame)
Bernie, he likes to chew gum,(If you'd have been there)
No, not chew, Pop! (If you'd have seen it)
So I came home this one day and I'm really irritated (I betcha you would have done the same)
and I'm looking for a lil' bit of sympathy (He had it coming)
And there's Bernie lyin' on the couch, (He had it coming)
Drinkin' a beer and chewin' (He only had himself to blame)
No, not chewin', poppin' (If you'd have been there)
So, I said to him, I said (If you'd have seen it)
"You pop that gum one more time" (I betcha you would have done the same)
And he did (He had it coming)
So I took the shotgun off the wall (He had it coming)
And I fired two warning shots (He only had himself to blame)
Into his head
Santana and Tina with Brittany and Sugar:
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 betcha you would have done the same
Sugar (Brittany, Santana and Tina):
(He had it coming) I met Ezekiel Young from Salt Lake City (He had it coming)
About two years ago, and he told me he was single (He only had himself to blame)
And we hit it off right away (If you'd have been there)
So, we started living together (If you'd have seen it)
He'd go to work, he'd come home, I'd fix him a drink, and we'd have dinner. (I betcha you would have done the same)
(He had it coming) And then I found out, (He had it coming)
Single, he told me. Single, my butt! (He only had himself to blame)
Not only was he married, oh no, he had six wives (If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it)
One of those Mormons, you know (I betcha you would have done the same)
So that night, when he came home from work (He had it coming)
I fixed him his drink (He had it coming)
As usual (He only had himself to blame)
You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic
Santana and Tina (Brittany and Sugar):
He had it coming (Pop! Six! Squish!), he had it coming (Uh-Uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!)
He took a flower (Pop! Six! Squish!) in its prime (Uh-Uh! Cicero! Lipschitz!)
And then he used it (Pop!) and he abused it (Six!)
It was a murder (Squish! Uh-Uh! Cicero! Lipschitz) but not a crime
Santana:
Now, I'm standing in the kitchen
Carvin' up the chicken for dinner, mindin' my own business
In storms my husband Wilbur in a jealous rage
"You been doin' the milkman"
he says
He was crazy and he kept on screamin'
"You been doin' the milkman"
Then he ran into my knife
He ran into my knife ten times
Brittany and Sugar:
The dirty bum (Tina: bum, bum, bum, bum)
The dirty bum (Tina: bum, bum, bum, bum)
Sugar:
They had it comin', (Tina: They had it comin')
Santana:
They had it comin', (Sugar: They had it comin')
Tina:
They had it comin' all along, (Santana: They had it coming' all along)
Sugar:
'Cause if they used us (Santana: Cause if they used us)
Tina:
And they abused us (Sugar: And they abused us)
Santana, Sugar and Tina with Brittany:
How could they tell us that we were wrong?
Could you tell us that we were wrong?
Trivia[]
- Unlike the original which is over 7 minutes, the Glee version is nearly 4 minutes long. Due to this, many of the lines were cut, such as the other three "stories."
- This is the third of four times that Glee uses a song from the musical Chicago. The first was Mr. Cellophane, the second was Nowadays/Hot Honey Rag and the fourth was All That Jazz. There has been one in every season.
- Mercedes welcomes the six merry murderesses yet there's only four performing the rendition: Tina, Santana, Brittany and Sugar, and only three stories performed out of six stories.
- The line "Single, my ass," present in the original music was changed to "Single, my butt."
- The line "screwing the milkman" was changed to "doing the milkman" for the song.
- Brittany was the only one of the girls who was involved in this performance not to get an individual solo.
- In the performance, Mike and Rory were used as the men in the song.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Cell Block Tango - Glee HD Full Studio
Glee Cell Block Tango Full Performance Official Music Video