A popular song from 1941.
Words and music by Mack David and Milton Ager.
Sheet music provided by Laurence Rubenstein:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Be a good neighbor and help Uncle Sam
It’s patriotic to kiss a South American miss
Ay-yi, be Pan American
Learn how to rhumba, that’s part of the plan
You’ll find you’re makin’ new friends
When you are shakin’ both ends
Ay-yi, be Pan American
Strum a guitar to those starry eyed queens
Spread a little good will from Brazil
To the Argentines and that means
Be romantic in Rio and in Yucatan
And if a night in Peru
Brings out the Latin in you
Ay-yi, it’s for Uncle Sam
Be Pan American
Sung here by Fred Feild: