Once while I was on shore liberty,
On the tropic little island Bimini
I go to bar where lights are bright;
Calypso music everything all right.
Beautiful woman do a dance,
Do the Limbo, put me in a trance.
I say, "Mon, what her name be?"
He say, "Bahama Mama, and she wild and free."
Lonely was I from many days at sea;
I wanted this woman who was wild and free.
Say, Bahama Mama, Limbo with me?
She work me over like Hurricane Shirley.
Drink much rum, get me in a fight,
Sailor hit me on head, out go lights.
When I come to, guess what I see?
Bahama Mama, and she kissing me.
Bahama Mama now tell me she love me;
Her beauty and the rum make me feel dizzy.
From look on her face, I can see
Bahama Mama not belong to me.
Bahama Mama do a dance, when
She do the Limbo, put me in a trance.
I lucky man, everyone would say;
Bahama Mama claimed lover today.
Never ever more will I go to sea;
Bahama Mama and me will soon marry.
We gonna do everything up right;
Bahama Mama gonna love me day and night
Pretty soon, then, there'll be three:
Bahama Mama, little baby and me;
I so happy, hard to believe
Bahama mama now belong to me.
Bahamaaaaaa....