TAKE HER TO JAMAICA (WHERE THE RUM COME FROM)
(Music: Irving Fields / Lyrics: Jack Edwards)


Edmundo Ros & His Rumba Band - 1950

Also recorded by: Lord Messam & His Calypsonians; Count Owen; 
Dick Charlesworth; Lord Myrie, Cecil Mitchel & James Convery; 
The Trojans.



Won't you take her to Jamaica
Better take her to Jamaica
You're gonna take her to Jamaica
Then do it, do it, do it right away

Take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
The rum come from, the rum come from
Take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
And you can have some fun

The weather and your baby may be cold as ice
Cold as ice, you better think twice
Take her to Jamaica, that's my advice
Relax and have some fun

You will do and do the new Jamaican Rumba
You will shake it like you never shook before
Oh, you'll ask the band to play another number
And then you stop for some more

Yes, take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
The rum come from, the rum come from
Take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
And you can have some fun

(Orchestral Interlude)

You will do and do and do the new Jamaican Rumba
Shake it like you never shook before
And you'll ask the band to play another number
But then you stop for some more

Just take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
The rum come from, the rum come from
Take her to Jamaica where the rum come from
And you can have some fun

Take her to Jamaica
You better take her to Jamaica
You're gonna take her to Jamaica
Then do it, do it, do it right away






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2011)