- words by Gus Kahn, music by Vincent Youmans and Edward Eliscu
 - Academy Award-winning song from the 1933 RKO movie "Flying Down To Rio"
 (the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
 - as recorded in New York, April 27, 1934, by New Orleans-born vocalist
 Connie Boswell (1907-1976) with Victor Young & his Orchestra

 Say, have you seen a Carioca?
 It's not a foxtrot or a polka
 It has a little bit of new rhythm, a blue rhythm that sighs

 It has a meter that is tricky
 A bit of wicked wacky-wicky
 But when you dance it with a new love, there's a true love in her eye

 You dream of a new Carioca
 Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
 You dream of a new Carioca
 When music and lights are gone we say goodbye

 Two heads together, they say are better than one
 Two heads together, that's how the dance is begun
 Two arms around you and lips, that's why I'm yours and you are mine
 And you are mine

 Now that you've done the Carioca
 You'll never care to do the Polka
 And then you'll realize the blue hula and bamboola are through

 Tomorrow morning you'll discover
 You're just a Carioca lover
 And when you dance it with each new love, there'll be true love just for you

 Now you'll dream of a new Carioca
 Its theme is a kiss and a sigh
 You'll dream of a new Carioca
 When music and lights are gone and we're saying goodbye
 Goodbye