Mambo Italiano

Rosemary Clooney, 1954

Team illustration

Mambo Italiano

A boy went back to Napoli
Because she missed the scenery
The native dances and the charming songs
But wait a minute, something's wrong

Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano
Go, go, go, you mixed up sigialiano
All you calabraise, do the mambo like a crazy with a

Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
Hey mambo, no more a mozzarella
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lan and a

Hey goombah, I love a-how you dance a rhumbah
But take a some advice paisano
Learn how to mambo
If you gonna be a square
You ain't a-gonna go nowhere

Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
Go, go, Joe, shake a like Giovanno
Hello kess-a-deetch you getta happy in the feets a
When you mambo italiano!
 
And a hey ja drool
You don't a have to go to school
Just make a wid da beat bambino
It's a like a vino
Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' 'til you

Hey mambo, mambo italiano
Hey mambo, mambo italiano
Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up Sigiliano
It's a so delish a everybody come copisha
How to mambo italiano!

'Ats nice!
Huh!