South America, Take It Away chords by Bing Crosby, Various
Verse 1
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Up here
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in
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the land of the hot dog stand,
the Athem Bomb and the
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Good Humor Man.
We think our South Amer
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ican neighbors are grand,
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we love them to beat the band.
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South America, bubble -oo, bubble -oo, i -e -a,
bubble -oo, one favor you can do, i -e -a, 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, aye, your rumba,
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aye, your conga
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Aye, aye, aye I can
't keep movin',
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aye, my chassis, aye, any longer
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Aye, aye, aye
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Now maybe Latins,
aye, in their middles,
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aye, are built stronger, aye, aye, aye,
but all is taken to the quaking,
and this baking with the shaking
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leaves me aching, oh, hey.
First you shake around a saddle,
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there,
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then you shake around a saddle, here,
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then you shake around a saddle,
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there.
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That's enough. That's enough.
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Take it back.
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My spine's out of 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,
aye, your samba,
aye, your rumba, aye, aye, aye.
Why can't you send us, aye,
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a less strenuous number,
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aye, aye, aye.
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I got more bumps now, than on a,
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cucumber, aye, aye, aye.
While all those Latin drums are cloppin'
Like a jumpin' jack
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I'm hoppin' without stoppin'
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Ole, South America, take it away
First you shake around and settle there
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Where?
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And then you shake around and settle here
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Oh, there
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And then you shake around and settle there
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Wiping
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That's enough,
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that's enough, take it back
My spine's out of 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,
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ay, your rumba, ay -yay -yay.
Bring back the old days,
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ay, of dancing,
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ay, remember, ay -yay -yay.
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My hips are crackin', ay, and shriekin',
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ay, caramba, ay -yay -yay.
I got a wriggle and a diddle
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and a jiggle like a fiddle in my middle.
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Olé! This fancy swishin' in position
wears out all of my transmission
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ammunition.
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Olé! Oh, I like neighborly relations,
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all this crazy new gyrations,
try my patience.
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Olé! South America,
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take it away!
Outro 1
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South America, Take It Away
Bing Crosby, Various
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