Rhumba Numba by Stephen Scholle

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1.	Rhumba Numba	4:27

Lyrics

There's cobra in the grass and she's dancing very fast
To keep her skirt up
It doesn't do much good cuz she drank more than she should
And it's nearly sun up
The people all around are shoutin very loud
And it's a stampede
But she can't get excited cuz last night she confided
A heedless ... need

So she dances in the moonlight and those who saw the sight
Were astounded
As the cobra began to lift and his head began to shift
She seemed so grounded
And she didn't hesitate to wake the mighty snake
From his slumber
As they began to weave what the witnesses believed
To be the rhumba

As they began to weave what the witnesses perceived
To be the ... rhumba

Credits

released August 14, 2014
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Teachable moments:
I started noodling with a chord progression over a rhumba rhythm. I wrote down what I heard and almost left it at that.

Then I threw this lyric at it. "There's a cobra in the grass and she's dancin very fast to keep her skirt up." Where did that come from? Literally. Was this India? A rock festival? Then, "A stampede"? That's a different country entirely. In the end I knew she and the snake had to get together. The electric viola gave it that low-down slithery feel.

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