Mambo Italiano

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Mambo Italiano by Rosemary Clooney

About Mambo Italiano

According to the Mambo Italiano Songfacts, the song's lyricist Bob Merrill literally scribbled the song on a napkin while dining at an Italian restaurant and phoned it in over the pay phone, humming the tune and everything. He was on deadline. .

Mambo Italiano Lyrics

[00:00.43] A girl went back to Napoli
[00:05.62] Because she missed the scenery
[00:09.77] The native dances and the charming songs
[00:14.89] But wait a minute, something's wrong
[00:31.10] Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano!
[00:34.51] Hey, mambo! Mambo italiano
[00:37.63] Go, go, go you mixed up sigialiano
[00:40.62] All you calabraise-a do the mambo like a crazy with a
[00:44.30] Hey mambo, don't wanna tarantella
[00:47.29] Hey mambo, no more a mozzarella
[00:50.36] Hey mambo! Mambo italiano!
[00:53.46] Try an enchilada with da fish a bac a lan and a
[00:56.74] Hey goombah, I love a how you dance a rhumbah
[01:01.81] But take a some advice paisano
[01:04.37] Learn how to mambo
[01:05.81] If you gonna be a square
[01:07.62] You ain't a gonna go nowhere
[01:09.04] Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
[01:12.25] Hey mambo! mambo italiano!
[01:15.11] Go, go, Joe, shake a like a Giovanno
[01:18.35] Hello kess-a-deetch-a you getta happy in the feets a
[01:21.78] When you mambo italiano
[01:35.13] Shake-a Baby shake-a cause I love a when you take a me
[01:45.16] Mama say "stop-a or I'm gonna tell a papa"
[01:53.15] And a hey ja drool you don't a have to go to school
[01:57.69] Just make-a wid da beat bambino
[02:00.92] It's a like a vino
[02:02.56] Kid you good a lookin' but you don't a-know what's cookin' till you
[02:06.07] Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
[02:08.85] Hey mambo, Mambo italiano
[02:12.06] Ho, ho, ho, you mixed up Sigiliano
[02:15.11] It's a so delish a ev'rybody come copisha
[02:18.37] How to mambo italianoooooo!
[02:25.03] 'Ats nice!
[02:27.60] UNH!
[02:29.18]

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