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