Just Another Rhumba Songtext
von Ella Fitzgerald

It happened to me
On a trip to the west indies
Oh, I′m all at sea
Since that trip to the west indies

I'm jittery
I′m twittery
I guess I'm done for
I guess I'm through
And it′s something about which there′s nothing anyone can do

It isn't love
It isn′t money trouble
It's a very funny trouble

It′s just another rhumba
But it certainly has my numb-bah
So much so, that I can't eat or slum-bah
Can you imagine anything dumb-bah?


Why did I have to plan a
Vacation in havana?
Why did I take that trip
That made me lose my grip?
Oh! That piece of music laid me low
There it goes again

Just another rhumba
Which I heard only last septum-bah
I′m a wreck, why did I have to succumb-bah
Can you imagine anything dumb-bah?
Why did I have to succumb-bah
To that rhumba?

Ah ah, I'm the cucaracha, who just went blah
And gave up swinging ha-cha, ah ah
Ah ah, at first it was devine-ah
But it turned out a cuban frankenstein-ah

Ah ah, it's got me by the throat-ah!
Oh, what′s the antidote-ah?
Ah ah, it brought me woe and strife-ah
Oh, where′s a gun or knife-ah?
It's the rhumba that blighted my life
There it goes again


Just another rhumba
But it certainly has my numb-bah
So much so, that I can′t eat or slum-bah
Can you imagine anything dumb-bah?
Why did I have to succumb-bah
To that rhumba?

There it goes again

Just another rhumba
But it certainly has my numb-bah
So much so, that I can't eat or slum-bah
Can you imagine anything dumb-bah?
Why did I have to succumb-bah
To that rhumba?