| Hate the opera, it’s too high brow
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| But there’s one number I can dig right now
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| Just like shifting without a clutch
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| I ride the boogie with the Carmen touch.
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| You ain’t living if you have missed
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| The long-haired music with the Crew Cut twist
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| Don’t love often and don’t love much
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| But love that boogie with the Carmen touch.
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| It rips up floors, it knocks down walls
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| They tell it’s the reason that Niagara Falls
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| It even made Gibraltar rock
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| It ain’t the kind of thing a mockingbird can mock.
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| The day it hit in Old Bombay
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| A hindu couldn’t charm a snake away.
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| The say in French, in Greek and Dutch
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| The boogie wasn’t boogie till it got the Carmen touch.
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| I can’t reveal the way I feel
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| I love so much the Carmen touch.
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| Knew a fellow, a Cat named Red
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| He played fine piano but they shot him dead
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| Red deserved it, the such and such
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| He copped a boogie with the Carmen touch.
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| What brings saucers around from Mars
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| And why do masons needs their mason jars
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| What makes babies cry out so much
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| They want their boogie with the Carmen touch.
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| I can’t reveal the way I feel
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| I love so much the Carmen touch. |