The Carioca Songtext
von Mel Tormé

This is from an older album of ours, listen

Say, have you seen a Carioca?
It′s not a foxtrot or a polka
It's got a little bit of new rhythm
A blue rhythm that sighs

It′s a meter that is tricky
A kind of wicked wacky-wicky
When you dance it with each new love
There'll true love in her eyes

You'll dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
Go, go, go, go, go, go dream of the new Carioca
When music and lights are gone and we′re saying goodbye

Sha-doddle-doyo-diddle-doo-do
Sha-doba-doba-dibo-do-da-da-da-daa


Two hearts together, that′s how the dance is begun
Two heads together are better than one
Two arms around you, lips that say you're mine
That′s why we Carioca 'til the brink of day
That′s the Carioca way

Chatta-boya-diddle-doo-do
Ah-doba-doba-dibo-do-da-da-da-daa

(That'll be in a polsa)

Now that you′ve done the Carioca
You'll never care to do the polka
And then you'll realize the blue hula of bamboola are through

Tomorrow morning you′ll discover
You′re just a Carioca lover
And when you dance it with each new love
There'll be true love just for you

You′ll dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
Go, go, go, go, go, go dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone and we're saying goodbye


My love for you cannot die
Long as you and I follow through, learn to do
The Carioca
The Carioca
(Yeah)
(Yeah)