Latins Know How

From the musical “Louisiana Purchase”, 1940
Words and music by Irving Berlin


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

In a magazine I read
Where a certain author said
That Latins are lazy lovers
And it’s a lie, a libelous lie
And who, tell me, who
Should know better than I?

Chorus
Latins, they don’t play baseball
They’re not so good with a rake or a plow
They’re not experts at making money
But when it comes to making love
A Latin knows how
Latins, they don’t like farming
You seldom see Latins milking a cow
In the daytime, they’re always sleepy
But with guitars beneath the stars
A Latin knows how
Englishmen and Yankees
They’ve got quite a lot
But that extra something
They just haven’t got
Latins, they’re so romantic
They’ve got more “oomph”
Than the law will allow
If you’re married to a Latin
Life is just as smooth as satin
For a Latin knows how