Boogie, boogie-woogie   The boogie-woogie-woogie beat      Down in Africa, many years ago   There lived a little fella named Zulu Joe   He took his tom-tom, a great big stick   And that was the birth of the boogie lick      Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat      Then Joe got hip and he started to sing   The animals flipped and began to swing   Monkey, elephant, kangaroo   They all picked up on the boogie too      Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat      Well, the animals a-boogied all over the place   The rabbit spit in the bulldog's face   Joe kept a-beatin' 'til the early morn   And that's when the boogie-woogie was born      Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, birth of the boogie   Birth of the boogie, the boogie-woogie-woogie beat