Mambo Italiano

Album: Rosie's Greatest Hits (1954)
Charted: 1 9
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  • A girl 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 siciliano
    All you calabrese 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 the fishy baccalà and then a-
    Hey cumpa', I love a how you dance a rhumba
    But take-a some advice, paesano
    Learn-a 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 like a Giovanno
    Hello, che si dice, getta happy in the feets-a when you
    Mambo italiano

    Shake-a baby, shake-a 'cause I love-a when you take a me

    Mama say stop-a or I'm gonna tell papa
    And-a hey jadrool you don't-a have to go to school
    Just make-a with the beat bambino
    It's-a like a vino
    Kid, you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' till you

    Hey mambo, mambo italiano
    Hey mambo, mambo italiano
    Ho, ho, Joe, you mixed up siciliano
    It's a so delish-a everybody come, capisci
    How to mambo italiano

    'Ats nice (uh) Writer/s: Bob Merrill
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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