A popular song from 1937.
Words by Ira Gershwin.
Music by George Gershwin.
Copyright ©1937. Published 1959.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
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
Refrain:
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 succumbah?
Can you imagine anything dumbah?
Why did I have to succumbah to that rhumbah?
Trio:
Ah! Ah! I’m the cucaracha who just went blah
And gave up swing and hot-cha
Ah, ah, ah! Ah, Ah!
At first it was divine-ah
But it turned out a Cuban Frankenstein-ah
Ah, ah, ah! It’s got me by the throat-ah
Oh what’s the antidote-ah?
Ah, ah, ah! It brought me woe and strife-ah
It made me lose my wife-ah
It’s the rhumba that blighted my life
There it goes again, Just Another Rhumba
Which has got me under its thumbah
So much so that I can’t eat or slumbah
Can you imagine anything dumbah?
Why did I have to succumbah to that rhumbah?
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: