What is the name of the tune often played during a conga line? It’s just six repeating notes:
Dum-dah, Dum-dah DUM-DUM
Dum-dah, Dum-dah DUM-DUM.
Now and then the tune gets stuck in my head when I hear a six-syllable phrase like Upper Minnesota or Condoleezza’s answer.
Let’s all do the conga?
C’Mon and do conga!
Allah la la uh! allah la la uh!
Conga like you mean it!
Please don’t make me shock you!
Fruity Marshmallow Krispies.
i think its official title is “Conga Conga Conga”
Lets all 'ave a disco
let’s all 'ave a disco
La La La La ooh
La La La La ooh!
I am evil Homer!
I am evil Homer!
or, alternately,
Sammy got the bar back!
…
Sammy is a dead man!
Perhaps its just the underlying rhythm of a mambo or a samba? I think that the whole Conga line craze originated about the same time as the Mambo/Samba craze…in the late 50s or early 60s. At least that’s the image I have in my head.
According to Yosemite Sam, it’s
“Ma’s Old Fashioned Ci-DER,
Ma’s Old Fashioned Ci-DER.”
Guess I should have known there’d
Be some smart-@ss replies.
Thank you moc.liamtoh
That sounds like the answer.
Which I didn’t find in
Cecil Adam’s column
Maybe I should question
Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
CONGA!