Bing Crosby - South America, Take It Away Lyrics

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, babaloo, babaloo, ayyiyi, babaloo

One favor you can do, ayyiyi, 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, ayyiyi

I can't keep movin', ay, my chassis, ay, any longer, ayyiyi

Now maybe Latins, ay, in their middles, ay, are built stronger, ayyiyi

But all this takin' to the quakin' and this makin' with the shakin'

Leaves me achin', olé

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 Sacroiliac

Take back your Conga, ay, your Samba, ay, your Rumba, ayyiyi

Why can't you send us, ay, a less strenu, ay, ous number, ayyiyi?

I got more bumps now, ay, than on a, ay, cucumber, ayyiyi

While all those Latin drums are cloppin'

like a Jumpin' Jack I'm hoppin' Without stoppin', olé

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, ayyiyi

Bring back the old days, ay, of dancin', I remember, ayyiyi

My hips are crackin' ay, I am shriekin' "Ay Carumba", ayyiyi

I got a wriggle and a diddle and a jiggle like a fiddle
in my middle, olé

This fancy swishin' imposition wears out

All of my transmission Ammunition, olé

Though I like neighborly relations all these crazy new gyrations

Try my patience, olé, South America, take it away