JUST ANOTHER RHUMBA
George Gershwin (m) Ira Gershwin (l)  1937

as recorded by Ella Fitzgerald 
with Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra  
July 17th 1959 
Hollywood


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!

It's just another rhumba,
But it certainly has my number,
So much so that I can't eat or slumber!
Can you imagine anything dumb-ber?

Why did I have to plan a
Vacation in Havana?
Why did I take that trip
That made me lose my grip?
Ohhhh!
That piece of music laid me low!

There it goes again!
Just another rhumba
Which I heard only last Septumber.
I'm a wreck, why did I have to succumb-ber?
Can you imagine anything dumb-ber?
Why did I have to Succumb-ber
To that rhumba?

Ah-ah,
I'm the cucaracha  who just went blah,
And gave up swingin' ha-cha,
Ah-ah-ah!
Ah-ah,
At first it was diviner,
But it turned out a Cuban Frankensteiner!

Ah-ah-ah,
It's got me by the throater,
Oh, what's the antidoter?
Ah-ah-ah,
It brought me woe and strifer,
Oh, where's my gun and knifer?
It's the rhumba that blighted my life!

There it goes again!
Just another rhumba,
But it certainly has my number,
So much so that I can't eat or slumber!
Can you imagine anything dumb-ber?
Why did I have to succumb-ber
To that rhumba?

There it goes again!
Just another rhumba,
But it certainly has my number,
So much so that I can't eat or slumber!
Can you imagine anything dumb-ber?
Why did I have to succumb-ber
To that rhumba?



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - February 2013)