Every town ’s got a tango palace
Old-timers chasing broken dreams
Escaping whistles at nightmare
Living out B-movie themes 

Every town ‘s got a tango dancer
Pretending Latin ancestry
Born somewhere on Main Street
Low branch on the family tree

It never does no disco dancing
It never tried no rock ‘n roll
This ain’t that kind a dancing that you’re doing
This ain’t got his kind a soul

He loves to do the 
Tango, tango, tango  
Every night he do the
Tango, tango, tango
To three a.m. he
Tango, tango, tango
At the tango palace
At the tango palace
At the tango palace

He’s got a pattern of a hairdo
To match the high style of his shoes
Though he swears it’s called the tango  
It’s just another smalltime blues

He’s got a special tango partner
They’ve danced together twenty years
She’s the stylist in his beauty parlor
That dance has messed up their career

It never does no disco dancing
It never tried no rock ‘n roll
This ain’t that kind a dancing that you’re doing
This ain’t got their kind a soul

Monday, Tuesday it’s the
Tango, tango, tango  
Wednesday, Thursday it’s the 
Tango, tango, tango
Friday, Saturday it’s the
Tango, tango, tango
At the tango palace
Every Sunday it’s the
Tango, tango, tango  
Every month they do the 
Tango, tango, tango
Every year they do the
Tango, tango, tango
At the tango palace

At the tango palace
At the tango palace
Tango