Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit Of)

Album: A Little Bit Of Mambo (1999)
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  • Ladies and gentleman, this is mambo number five
    One, two, three, four, five everybody in the car, so come on
    Let's ride to the liquor store around the corner
    The boys say they want some gin and juice
    But I really don't wanna, beer bust like I had last week
    I must stay deep because talk is cheap

    I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita
    And as I continue you know they are getting sweeter
    So what can I do I really beg you my Lord
    To me is flirting it's just like sport, anything fly
    It's all good let me dump it please set in the trumpet

    A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side
    A little bit of Rita is all I need, a little bit of Tina is what I see
    A little bit of Sandra in the sun, a little bit of Mary all night long
    A little bit of Jessica here I am, a little bit of you makes me your man

    Mambo number five

    Jump up and down and move it all around
    Shake your head to the sound, put your hand on the ground

    Take one step left and one step right
    One to the front and one to the side
    Clap your hand once and clap your hands twice
    And if it looks like this then you are doing it right

    A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side
    A little bit of Rita is all I need, a little bit of Tina is what I see
    A little bit of Sandra in the sun, a little bit of Mary all night long
    A little bit of Jessica here I am, a little bit of you makes me your man

    Trumpet, the trumpet
    Mambo number five

    A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side
    A little bit of Rita is all I need, a little bit of Tina is what I see
    A little bit of Sandra in the sun, a little bit of Mary all night long
    A little bit of Jessica here I am, a little bit of you makes me your man

    I do all, to fall in love with a girl like you
    'Cause you can't run and you can't hide
    You and me gonna touch the sky

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Comments: 7

  • Seventhmist from 7th Heaven"A little bit of Monica in my life." That's just too funny.
  • Chris from SomewhereEr, Dave in Cardiff, he did write the LYRICS! Perez just wrote the music...
  • Esskayess from Dallas, Tx(Wikpedia) The song became a controversy in September 1999 when the Los Angeles Times reported that the song's actual theme was related to street drugs with the women's names being street names for illicit narcotics.

  • Mamie from Cleveland, OhMy pre-k students love the disney version of mambo #5. I won't play the original lyrics version. Love the song though.
  • Dave from Cardiff, Wales"Lou Bega said: "When I wrote the song, I believed it..." Err, Lou Bega, you didn't write the song, Perez Prado did!
  • Mike from Matawan, NjEven worse then the Macarena. I don't know how that's possible, but it is.
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesAlso a #1 UK hit for puppet character Bob The Builder in 2001 - exactly two years to the day that Lou Bega's version hit the top spot. Interestingly, the song that Lou Bega kept at the #2 spot was another cover version of a Perez Prado song, Shaft's "(Mucho Mambo) Sway", which Prado originally recorded with Rosemary Clooney
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