Mel Tormé - South America, Take It Away (Remastered) Lyrics

Lyrics South America, Take It Away (Remastered) - Mel Tormé



Up here in the land of the hot-dog stand
The atom bomb and the Good Humor Man
We think our South American neighbors are grand
We love 'em to beat the band
South America, baba-loo, baba-loo, ay-ee-eh, baba-loo
One favor you can do, ay-ee-eh, you can do
You beautiful lands below
Don't know what you began
To put it plainly, I'm tired of shakin'
To that Pan-American plan
Take back your Samba, ay!, your Rumba, ay!, your Conga, ay-yi-yi!
I can't keep movin', ay!, my chassis, ay!, any longer, ay-yi-yi!
Now maybe Latins, ay!, in their middles, ay!, are built stronger,
Ay-yi-yi!
But all this takin' to the quakin' and this makin' with the shakin'
Leaves me achin', ole!
First shake around and settle there
Then you shake around and settle here
Then you shake around and settle there
That's enough, that's enough
Take it back, my spine's outta-whack
There's a strange click-clack
In the back of my sacroilliac
Take back your Conga, ay!, your Samba, ay!, your Rumba, ay-yi-yi!
Why can't you send us, ay!, a less strenu-, ay!, -ous number, ay-yi-
Yi!
I got more bumps now, ay!, than on a, ay!, cucumber, ay-yi-yi!
While all those Latin drums are cloppin', like a Jumpin' Jack I'm
Hoppin' without stoppin', ole!
South America, take it away
First you shake around and settle there (where?)
Then you shake around and settle here (oh, there)
And then you shake around and settle there (why Bing!)
That's enough, that's enough
Take it back, my spine's outta-whack
There's a strange click-clack
In the back of my sacroiliac
Oh, my achin' back
Take back your Conga, ay!, your Samba, ay!, your Rumba, ay-yi-yi!
Bring back the old days, ay!, of dancing I remember, ay-yi-yi!
My hips are cracking, I am shrieking "Ay-Carumba!", ay-yi-yi!
I got a wriggle and a diddle and a jiggle like a fiddle in my
Middle, ole!
This fancy swishin' imposition wears out all of my transmission
Ammunition, ole!
Though I like neighborly relations all these crazy new gyrations try
My patience, ole!
South America, take it away!



Writer(s): Harold Rome


Mel Tormé - Forever Gold - Night And Day (Remastered)
Album Forever Gold - Night And Day (Remastered)
date of release
14-02-2011

1 Mountain Greenery (Remastered)
2 South America, Take It Away (Remastered)
3 Love Is The Sweetest Thing (Remastered)
4 Night And Day (Remastered)
5 There's No One But You (Remastered)
6 Bewitched (Remastered)
7 It Don’t Mean A Thing - If It Ain’t Got That Swing (Remastered)
8 My Baby Just Cares For Me (Remastered)
9 Little White Lies (Remastered)
10 Try A Little Tenderness (Remastered)
11 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Remastered)
12 A Cottage For Sale (Remastered)
13 You're Driving Me Crazy (Remastered)
14 I've Got The Sun In The Morning And The Moon At Night (Remastered)
15 It Happened In Monterey (Remastered)
16 Get Out Of Town (Remastered)
17 I'm Yours (Remastered)
18 Along With Me (Remastered)
19 Born To Be Blue (Remastered)
20 That's Where I Came In (Remastered)
21 Fine And Dandy (Remastered)
22 Changing My Tune (Remastered)
23 If I Had A Girl Like You (Remastered)
24 You're A Heavenly Thing (Remastered)
25 Dream Awhile (Remastered)
26 Who Cares What People Say? (Remastered)
27 Willow Road (Remastered)
28 I Believe (Remastered)
29 There's No Business Like Show Business (Remastered)
30 Black Moonlight (Remastered)
31 Hooray For Love (Remastered)
32 I Don’t Want To Walk Without You (Remastered)
33 Skylark (Remastered)
34 You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Remastered)




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