Rum and Coca Cola

RUM AND COCA-COLA By Morey Amsterdam

If you ever go down Trinidad, they make you feel so very glad
Calypso sing and make up rhyme, guarantee you one real good fine time
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola. Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter workin' for the Yankee dollar. Oh, beat it
man, beat it

Since the Yankee come to Trinidad, they got the young girls all goin' mad
Young girls say they treat 'em nice, make Trinidad like paradise
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola. Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter workin' for the Yankee dollar. Oh, you vex me, you
vex me

From Chicachicaree to Mona's Isle, native girls all dance and smile
Help soldier celebrate his leave, make every day like New Year's Eve
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola. Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter workin' for the Yankee dollar.
It's a fact, man, it's a fact

In old Trinidad, I also fear, the situation is mighty queer
Like the Yankee girl, the native swoon when she hear der Bingle croon
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola. Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter workin' for the Yankee dollar

Out on Manzanella Beach, G.I. romance with native peach
All night long, make tropic love, next day, sit in hot sun and cool off
Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola. Go down Point Koomahnah
Both mother and daughter workin' for the Yankee dollar.
It's a fact, man, it's a fact

And here's some lyrics I found in a songbook which are quite different from
The Andrews Sisters' recording.

RUM AND COCA-COLA
- words by Morey Amsterdam
- additional verses by Al Stillman
- music by Jeri Sullavan and Paul Baron

If you ever go to Trinidad
They make you feel so very glad
Calypso sing and make up rhyme
Guarantee you one good real fine time

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down "Point Koomahnah"
Both mother and daughter
Singin' for the Yankee dollar

Any visitor to Trinidad
Can have good time he never had
If he come just for rest, okay
Then he lie around in sun all day

Drinkin' rum and Coca-Cola
Go down "Point Koomahnah"
Both mother and daughter
Singin' for the Yankee dollar

Additional verses:

All the teen-age babies very keen
To listen to juke box machine
It stimulates their heart 'n' soul
Just to hear Calypso rock 'n' roll

In Trinidad out on Green Hill
Lives native man called "Papa Bill"
Got nineteen wives, but he's blue because
He also got nineteen mother-in-laws

Oldest native here is ninety-nine
But still he feel so nice 'n' fine
On Tee-vee show he smile 'n' say
"Nothing to it, I just got that way"

Native girl got figure fine
Just like Trinidad coast-line
But one thing that you see so plain
She's a little plump around Port of Spain

I bought a dog in Trinidad
Best darn dog I ever had
He so smart that little pup
Walk on front legs...if you hold back ones up

When soldier go parading by
Native girls all wink the eye
Help soldier celebrate his leave
Make every day like New Year's Eve