Carmen's Boogie - The Andrews Sisters

Hate the opera, it’s too high brow

But there’s one number I can dig right now

Just like shifting without a clutch

I ride the boogie with the Carmen touch.

You ain’t living if you have missed

The long-haired music with the Crew Cut twist

Don’t love often and don’t love much

But love that boogie with the Carmen touch.

It rips up floors, it knocks down walls

They tell it’s the reason that Niagara Falls

It even made Gibraltar rock

It ain’t the kind of thing a mockingbird can mock.

The day it hit in Old Bombay

A hindu couldn’t charm a snake away.

The say in French, in Greek and Dutch

The boogie wasn’t boogie till it got the Carmen touch.

I can’t reveal the way I feel

I love so much the Carmen touch.

Knew a fellow, a Cat named Red

He played fine piano but they shot him dead

Red deserved it, the such and such

He copped a boogie with the Carmen touch.

What brings saucers around from Mars

And why do masons needs their mason jars

What makes babies cry out so much

They want their boogie with the Carmen touch.

I can’t reveal the way I feel

I love so much the Carmen touch.