Key: Eb major
Verse 1
chick boom, chicky boom,
chick chicky boom.
Em
A
Up here in the land of the hot dog stand,
We love them,
Em
D
Dm
to be the band.
South America, Babaloo, Babaloo,
One favor you can do,
One favor you can do
Em
Edim
You beautiful ant s below
A
Dm
Don't know what you began
Em
E
To put it plainly
We're tired of shakin'
Em
F#
Em
Dm
To that Pan -American plan
A
Em
D
Yee -haw!
Take back your conga
Aye! Your samba
F#m
D
Aye! Your rumba
G
D
Aye, aye, aye!
I can't keep shakin'
G
D
F#m
D
Bm
Em
Aye! my rumble any longer now
Em
G
Em
are built stronger
and the shaking of the bacon
D
G
D
Em
D
leaves me aching holey
Dm
C
first you shake it and you put it there
Em
Am
then you shake it and you
C
Dm
G
put it there
Dm
A
C
Em
that's
G
C
Edim
Em
take it back my spine's out of whack.
D
Em
D
Em
There's a great big crack
F#m
D
C
A
in the back of my sacroiliac.
D
Bm
Take back your conga,
Aye, aye, aye.
F#m
D
Why can't you send us
A
Em
A
Em
Aye, aye, aye.
It's getting so now, aye,
Ebaug
Eb
G
that even I am slumber.
Em
A
Aye, aye, aye.
I hear the rockin' of my carcass
and the knocking of the
knockers in my carcass.
Em
D
Dm
Holey! South
G
C
E
America!
Dm
Em
F#m
D
Am
C
Take it away.
Em
Eb
D
G
Em
That's enough.
Dm
G
Take it back.
Gm
C
D
My spine's out of whack.
A
D
There's a great big crack
F#m
E
F#m
in the back of my sac roiliac.
B
E
Take back your conga, ay, stamba,
B
E
C#m
E
C#m
ay, rumba, ay, ay, ay.
B
F#m
ay, of dancing, ay, I remember,
B
F#m
B
ay, ay, ay.
F#m
A
Dm
C#
My hips are creaking and shrieking,
F#m
B
A
and a jiggle like a fiddle in my middle.
E
A
F#m
Mole! Mole! South America
Outro 1
E
B
E
E
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