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' till 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