Carioca Lyrics

Carioca lyrics

The Carioca
- words by Gus Kahn, music by Vincent Youmans and Edward
Eliscu
- Academy Award-winning song from the 1933 RKO movie "Flying Down To
Rio"
(the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
- as
recorded in New York, April 27, 1934, by New Orleans-born vocalist
Connie
Boswell (1907-1976) with Victor Young & his Orchestra

Say, have you seen
a Carioca?
It's not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new
rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs

It has a meter that is tricky
A bit
of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love, there's a true
love in her eye

You dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a
sigh
You dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone we say
goodbye

Two heads together, they say are better than one
Two heads
together, that's how the dance is begun
Two arms around you and lips, that's
why I'm yours and you are mine
And you are mine

Now that you've done
the Carioca
You'll never care to do the Polka
And then you'll realize the
blue hula and bamboola are through

Tomorrow morning you'll
discover
You're just a Carioca lover
And when you dance it with each new
love, there'll be true love just for you

Now you'll dream of a new
Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You'll dream of a new
Carioca
When music and lights are gone and we're saying goodbye
Goodbye