# Name of conga-line song?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 5, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204 "2003-03-05T06:18:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/1 "2003-03-05T06:18:28Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/2 "2003-03-05T06:27:46Z")

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Let’s all do the conga?

C’Mon and do conga!

Allah la la uh! allah la la uh!

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**Author:** ![ryoushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@ryoushi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryoushi)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/3 "2003-03-05T06:44:14Z")

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Conga like you mean it!

Please don’t make me shock you!

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**Author:** ![Monkeypants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Monkeypants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkeypants)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/4 "2003-03-05T06:49:28Z")

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Fruity Marshmallow Krispies.

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**Author:** ![moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@moc.liamtoh\_rorrim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moc.liamtoh_rorrim)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/5 "2003-03-05T09:26:01Z")

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i think its official title is “Conga Conga Conga”

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**Author:** ![Jammers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@Jammers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammers)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/6 "2003-03-05T10:22:29Z")

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Lets all 'ave a disco  
let’s all 'ave a disco  
La La La La ooh  
La La La La ooh!

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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/7 "2003-03-05T13:02:38Z")

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I am evil Homer!  
I am evil Homer!

or, alternately,

Sammy got the bar back!  
…  
Sammy is a dead man!

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**Author:** ![bettybad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bettybad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bettybad)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/8 "2003-03-05T13:26:49Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/9 "2003-03-05T13:57:04Z")

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According to Yosemite Sam, it’s

“Ma’s Old Fashioned Ci-DER,  
Ma’s Old Fashioned Ci-DER.”

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**Author:** ![Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Satisfying\_Andy\_Licious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satisfying_Andy_Licious)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-of-conga-line-song/159204/10 "2003-03-07T06:01:13Z")

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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!