They Were Doin' The Mambo

Album

Single

Label

RCA Victor

Genre

Vocal Jazz

Media Type

78

Composer(s)

Don Raye

Entered Chart

Jul 28, 1954

Peak Date

Sep 15, 1954

Released

1954

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

RCA Victor 5767

B-Side

Mister Sandman

went a ridin home down to Santa Fe
There's been a lot of changes since I been away
I went to have a dance at the old dance hall
Where they were having a ball

Chorus 1:
They were doin the mambo
What the heck is the mambo
They were doin the mambo
While I just stood around

I looked around the place for my best gal Flo
I asked a lot of people for my best friend Joe
Nobody seemed to know where my two friends were
Except that he was with her

Chorus 2:
They were doin the mambo
Well they called it the mambo
They were doin the mambo
While I just stood around
I used to be a dance hall dandy
But it seems since I been gone
There's an awful lot of changes
I don't know what's goin on
I got a big surprise on the patio
I found my gal a huggin
With my best friend Joe
And when they turned around
And they looked my way
They smiled and shouted "Olay!"

Chorus 2

I used to be a dance hall dandy
I knew all there was to know
I knew this away from that away
But which way did they go
I figured it was time that I took a ride
But couldn't find my horse
Where I left him tied
He found a little filly that he liked a lot
And you believe it or not
They were doin the mambo
Even horses do mambo
They were doin the mambo, mambo
While I just stood around