This song was written to parody the rumba craze that swept American dance floors in the late 1930s. It was originally composed for the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress but wound up going unused. It suffered the same fate for The Goldwyn Follies the following year, though cast members were rehearsing t...
(Verse 1)
It happened to me
On a trip to the West Indies
Oh, I'm all at sea
Since that trip to the West Indies
I'm jittery
I'm twittery
I guess I'm done for, I guess I'm through
And it's something about which there's nothing anyone can do
It isn't love
It isn't money trouble
It's a very funny trouble:
(Chorus)
It's just another rhumba
But it certainly has my numbah
So much so, that I can't eat or slumbah
Can you imagine anything dumbah?
Why did I have to plan a
Vacation in Havana?
Why did I take that trip
That made me lose my grip?
Oh! That piece of music laid me low
There it goes again:
Just another rhumba
Which I heard only last Septumbah
I'm a wreck, why did I have to succumb-ah
Can you imagine anything dumbah?
Why did I have to succumb-ah
To that rhumba?
(Verse 2)
I'm the cucaracha
Who just went blah
And gave up swinging ha-cha
Ah!
At first it was divine-ah
But it turned out a Cuban Frankenstein-ah
Ah!
It's got me by the throat-ah!
Oh, what's the antidote-ah?
Ah!
It brought me woe and strife-ah
Oh, where's a gun or knife-ah?
It's the rhumba that blighted my life
There it goes again
(Chorus)
Just another rhumba
Which has got me under its thumb-ah
So much so, that I can't eat or slumbah
Can you imagine anything dumbah?
Why did I have to succumb-ah
To that rhumba?
Just Another Rhumba was written by Ira Gershwin & George Gershwin.
George Gershwin released Just Another Rhumba on Fri Jan 01 1937.