El Cumbanchero song lyrics, sung by Desi Arnaz on the I Love Lucy episode Lucy is Jealous of Girl Dancer
Cumbanchero
A cumba cumba cumba
cumbanchero…
A bongo bongo bongo
bongocero…
Riquiti que va sonando
el cumbanchero, bongocero que se vá…
Bongocero que se vá…
A cumba cumba cumba
cumbanchero…
A bongo bongo bongo
bongocero…
Riquiti que va sonando
el cumbanchero, bongocero que se vá…
Bongocero que se vá…
Y suena así el tambor ríquititi
bom bom bom bom bá…
y vuelve a repicar ríquititi
bom bom bom bom bá…
A cumba cumba cumba
cumbanchero…
A bongo bongo bongo
bongocero…
Riquiti que va sonado
el cumbanchero, bongocero que se vá…
Bongocero que se vá…
English translation of El Cumbanchero
A cumba, cumba-cumba, drum-player…
A bongo, bongo bongo, bongo-player…
Pri-qui-ti the sound that it’s making when the drum-player that goes by…
Bongo-player that goes by.
And the drum sounds like this
Pri-qui-ti bom – bom bam.
And again he repeats
Pri-qui-ti bom – bom bam.