A 1938 popular song. Words and music by Milton Ager and Benny Davis.
Sheet Music
Accompaniment
Lyrics
Hear that sound, that strange vibration?
That’s the Rhumba rumbling through the nation
City swells and country Reubens
Taking Rhumba lessons from the Cubans
Where they throw those smart Park Avenue parties
In those Broadway honky-tonks, too
In between their Bacardis, What do they do?
Chorus
Ev’ryone’s doin’ the Rhumba
To the rhythm of La Bomba
Ev’rybody’s goin’ Cuban
All over dance-mad Manhattan
There’s a movement that is Latin
Ev’rybody’s goin’ Cuban
High hats are drinking Cuban
Broadway is thinkin’ Cuban
They don’t say “How have you been!”
All they say is “La Congo!”
Nobody cares about slumber
All they care about is Rhumba
Ev’rybody’s goin’ Cuban
Performance
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