Carioca lyrics

The Carioca
- words by Gus Kahn, music by Vincent Youmans and Edward Eliscu
- Academy Award-winning song from the 1933 RKO movie `Flying Down To Rio`
(the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
- as recorded in New York, April 27, 1934, by New Orleans-born vocalist
Connie Boswell (1907-1976) with Victor Young & his Orchestra

Say, have you seen a Carioca?
It`s not a foxtrot or a polka
It has a little bit of new rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs

It has a meter that is tricky
A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
But when you dance it with a new love, there`s a true love in her eye

You dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone we say goodbye

Two heads together, they say are better than one
Two heads together, that`s how the dance is begun
Two arms around you and lips, that`s why I`m yours and you are mine
And you are mine

Now that you`ve done the Carioca
You`ll never care to do the Polka
And then you`ll realize the blue hula and bamboola are through

Tomorrow morning you`ll discover
You`re just a Carioca lover
And when you dance it with each new love, there`ll be true love just for you

Now you`ll dream of a new Carioca
Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
You`ll dream of a new Carioca
When music and lights are gone and we`re saying goodbye
Goodbye
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