The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66111   Message #1095017
Posted By: PoppaGator
17-Jan-04 - 03:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rum and Coca Cola
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Rum and Coca Cola
I'm pretty sure the Andrews Sisters (whose recording is by now, I believ, the most familiar version of this song) changed some of Morey Amsterdams' lyrics. The second line of the chorus, which all sources cited here as:

"Go down Point Koomahnah"

is sung by the Andrewses as

"Make me say "Ooh la la."

That's the only discrepency I caught, but then I don't know all the AS version's lyrics off the top of my head. However, the published/orioginal lyrics seem very unfamiliar to me from beginning to end -- perhaps the popular recording featured a throoughly rewritten set of words (?)