A popular song from 1940.
Words by Charles Newman.
Music by James V. Monaco.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Have you ever been embarrassed
When you’re in a smart cafe?
When they play the Cuban tempo
Is your dancing quite passe?
There’s a studio on Main street
Over Tony’s clothing store
Where a very small investment
Pays you dividends galore
Chorus
Six lessons from Madame La Zonga
You’ll do the rhumba and the new La Conga
Six lessons in Madame’s Cabana
And you will imagine you’re down in Havana
Her four Latin daughters will help you to start
While finding the rhythm you might lose your heart
Six lessons from Madame La Zonga
And you’ll discover what practice can do
You count one, two, three
Use your hip and your knee
It’s bound to bring out the Latin in you
Patter
Rosita gives you lesson one
Chiquita gives you lesson two
Madame’s there to supervise
Ev’ry step and exercise
The Madame shows you how to walk
The Madame marks it with her chalk
When the Madame starts to squawk
That’s her Cuban double talk
Chorus
Six lessons from Madame La Zonga
You’ll do the rhumba and the new La Conga
Six lessons in Madame’s Cabana
And you will imagine you’re down in Havana
Her four Latin daughters will help you to start
While finding the rhythm you might lose your heart
Six lessons from Madame La Zonga
And you’ll discover what practice can do
You count one, two, three
Use your hip and your knee
It’s bound to bring out the Latin in you