| It happened to me
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| On a trip to the West Indies
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| Oh, I’m all at sea
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| Since that trip to the West Indies
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| I’m jittery
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| I’m twittery
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| I guess I’m done for, I guess I’m through
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| And it’s something about which there’s nothing anyone can do
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| It isn’t love
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| It isn’t money trouble
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| It’s a very funny trouble:
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| It’s just another rhumba
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| But it certainly has my numbah
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| So much so, that I can’t eat or slumbah
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| Can you imagine anything dumbah?
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| Why did I have to plan a
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| Vacation in Havana?
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| Why did I take that trip
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| That made me lose my grip?
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| Oh! |
| That piece of music laid me low
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| There it goes again:
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| Just another rhumba
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| Which I heard only last Septumbah
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| I’m a wreck, why did I have to succumb-ah
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| Can you imagine anything dumbah?
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| Why did I have to succumb-ah
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| To that rhumba?
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| I’m the cucaracha
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| Who just went blah
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| And gave up swinging ha-cha
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| Ah!
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| At first it was divine-ah
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| But it turned out a Cuban Frankenstein-ah
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| Ah!
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| It’s got me by the throat-ah!
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| Oh, what’s the antidote-ah?
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| Ah!
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| It brought me woe and strife-ah
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| Oh, where’s a gun or knife-ah?
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| It’s the rhumba that blighted my life
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| There it goes again
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| Just another rhumba
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| Which has got me under its thumb-ah
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| So much so, that I can’t eat or slumbah
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| Can you imagine anything dumbah?
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| Why did I have to succumb-ah
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| To that rhumba? |