WELL COME
ALL YOU CHILDREN
GIVE A LISTEN TO ME
LET ME TELL YOU 'BOUT
A NEW BOOGIE BEAT
THERE'S NO HESITATION
AND IT'S SWEEPIN'
THE NATION
IT'S THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
DONE THE
SOUTH AMERICAN WAY
WHILE
MADAME LAZONGA WAS
TEACHIN' THE CONGA
IN HER LITTLE CABANA IN
OLD HAVANA
WE WERE DOIN'
THE CHARLESTON
AND BALLIN' THE JACK
AND THEN THAT OLD
BLACK BOTTOM
TILL WE STARTED
THE JITTERBUG RAGE
THEN ACROSS
THE WATER CAME
CUBAN PETE
HE STARTED THE BOOGIE
TO THE RHUMBA BEAT
IT'S THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
LET'S GIVE IT A WHIRL
WHILE HE PLAYS
THE BOOGIE IN THE
SOUTH AMERICAN STYLE
WELL YOU STEP OUT
TOGETHER THEN
YOU CIRCLE AROUND
COUNT ONE TWO THREE
THEN PUT YOUR
RIGHT FOOT DOWN
THEN YOU CIRCLE
YOUR LADY
AS YOU SWING AND
YOU SWAY
TO THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
IN THE
SOUTH AMERICAN WAY
WHEN THAT OLD PIANO
IT STARTS TO RING
EVERYBODY THEN
STARTS TO SING TO THE
RHUMBA BOOGIE
DONE THE
TROPICAL STYLE
IT'S THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
AND THEY'RE DOIN' IT
ALL OF THE WHILE
WELL THE GUY
RESPONSIBLE FOR
LEADIN' THE BAND
HE YELLS DO YOUR STUFF
IT'S THE BEST
IN THE LAND
IT'S THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
LET'S DANCE IT AWHILE
TO THE BOOGIE-WOOGIE
DONE THE RHUMBA
CUBANAL STYLE
WHILE
MADAME LAZONGA WAS
TEACHIN' THE CONGA
IN HER LITTLE CABANA
IN OLD HAVANA
THE FOLKS IN
OLD MEXICO
WERE DOIN' THE TANGO
AND WE WERE STEPPIN'
TO THE RHYTHM OF
AN OLD GUITAR
THEN ACROSS
THE WATER CAME
CUBAN PETE
HE STARTED THE BOOGIE
TO THE RHUMBA BEAT
IT'S THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
LET'S DANCE IT AWHILE
TO THE RHUMBA BOOGIE
DONE THE RHUMBA
CUBANAL STYLE