Suitors
(source: "Diamond Jubilee Songbook", Girl Guides Association, 1984;
also in "Canciones de Nuestra Cabana", World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts, 1980.)
- There are suitors at my door, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Six or eight or maybe more O-lê-lê-o bahia
- And my father wants me wed, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Or at least that's what he said, O-lê-lê-o
bahia
Chorus:
- O-lê-o la, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- O-lê-o la, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- O-lê-o la, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- O-lê-o la, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- I told him that I will, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- When the rivers flow uphill, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Or the fish begin to fly, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Or the day before I die, O-lê-lê-o bahia
Thanks to Susannah, who sent me this third
verse to the song. I don't know if it's part of the original, though:
- And the rivers run uphill, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Always have and always will, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- Flying fish can really fly, O-lê-lê-o bahia
- And today's the day I die, O-lê-lê-o bahia.