Some city folks are stayin' at a place
right near our farm
The other night they gave a dance
and held it in our barn
A city band was playin'
while they danced around the floor
They did one called the Mambo
that I never saw before
Well, the Mambo is a hoedown
that's just got a Latin beat
To me it looks just like
they're dancin' on each other's feet
The fella who is callin'
has a stomach pain, no doubt
When it starts to hurt him,
he'll stand right up and shout
It sounds just like a breakdown
and they play it mighty fast
Instead of usin' fiddles,
they just use a lot of brass
If my brains ever jumble,
I'll have myself a fling
I'll take a chance and learn to dance
that crazy mambo thing
On Saturday I went down to
the square dance in our town
I told the fiddle play
about this mambo dance I found
He said if I described it
he would try to play it too
But when I tried to tell him
here's the best that I could do
Well, a mambo is a hoedown
that's just got a Latin beat
To me it looks just like
they're dancing on each other's feet
The fellow who is calling
has a stomach pain, no doubt
When it starts to hurt him,
he'll stand right up and shout
It sounds just like a breakdown
and they play it mighty fast
Instead of using fiddles,
they just use a lot of brass
If my brains ever jumble,
I'll have myself a fling
I'll take a chance and learn to dance
that crazy mambo thing.