Social Security Tango, Part One

When life has turned your cry of pleasure

into a wail

And you try to cut the mustard but you

sometimes fail;

When you can't believe the mirror 'cause you

still feel pretty young,

Here's a charming melody just waiting

to be sung.

It's the Social Security Tango.

Don't you anticipate it breathlessly?

The Social Security Tango

Shows how the government takes care

of you and me.

Just keep on working and salting

those credits away

And you'll be getting a big check one day

And do the Social Security Tango,

A rose between our teeth, a smile on our face.

We'll get senior citizen discounts

And eat at famous franchised fast food places,

And they will say how well preserved we are,

So agile and so spry

And though we'd rather just be sexy,

Ours is not to reason why,

And we will join the double A-R-P

and try to just get by

And do the Social Security Tango.