South America, Take It Away

South America, Take It Away - 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

One favor 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 Conga ay your Samba ay your Rumba ay-yi-yi

I can't keep shakin' ay my Rumba ay any longer ay-yi-yi

Now maybe Latins ay in their middles ay are built stronger

Ay-yi-yi

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

Leaves me achin' ole

Then you shake and you put it here

Then you shake and you put it here

That's enough that's enough

Take it back my spine's outta-whack

There's a great 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

South America take it away

That's enough that's enough

Take it back my spine's outta-whack

There's a great click-clack

In the back of my sacroilliac

Take back your Conga ay your Samba ay your Rumba ay-yi-yi

South America take it away

Take it away

Take it away