Although the song first appeared on the Norman Luboff Choir LP Calypso Holiday in 1957, I know it from the 1959 Norman Luboff Choir LP Songs of the Caribbean, which my mother bought as a Christmas or birthday present for my father in the early 1960s. I was never aware of the 1957 disc until now, but having looked up the details on Discogs, I see that each of the two albums has 12 songs, and 8 of the songs are on both discs. Dansez Calenda is the last song on both albums.

The English lyrics for this song and most of the others on both of the albums are credited to Marilyn Keith and Alan Jay Bergman, well-known lyricists who were married to each other.

Both albums are available on YouTube for anyone who wants to listen to them.

I have the original album Songs of the Caribbean, and transcribed all the lyrics for my own interest. I append the full lyrics for Dansez Calenda. As someone else pointed out, "Carré!" means "Square off!" in French. I will also remark that "tambo" is from the French word "tambour", meaning a drum, and a "flambeau" is a torch. The first line means "We are going to dance the calenda".

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Jump in the ring, dance around by the light of the flambeau
Of the flambeau
Pick up the stick, make them beat to the beat of the tambo
Of the tambo
Faster! faster! Make the stick go, don't miss a beat
Faster! faster! Make the stick go, dance round the beat

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Them in the ring, hit stick to the beat of the bongo,
Of the bongo
Jump up and down, move around and around and around go
Round around go
Faster! faster! Make the stick go, don't miss a beat
Faster! faster! Make the stick go, dance round the beat

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda

Nous allons danser calenda
Nous allons danser calenda
Shout everybody carré carré
Nous allons danser calenda