Boogie, boogie woogie

The boogie-woogie-woogie beat

Down in Africa, many years ago

There lived a little fella named Zulu Joe

He took his tom-tom, a great big stick

And that was the birth of the boogie lick

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat



Then Joe got hip and he started to sing

The animals flipped and began to swing

Monkey, elephant, kangaroo

They all picked up on the boogie too

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat



Well, the animals a-boogied all over the place

The rabbit spit in the bulldog's face

Joe kept a-beatin' till the early morn'

And that's when the boogie-woogie was born

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie

Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat