Ella was a dancing girl who started getting fat,
Every day brought two more pounds to Ella.
'Til one day she found she'd lost her job because of that,
Then to make it worse, she lost her fella.
And so she sailed to Egypt to forget,
But she made such a hit that she's there yet!
If you hear of a gal who can shake and quake
'Till it makes you think of a nervous snake,
They're speaking of... Egyptian Ella.
She weighs two-twenty but they don't care,
They like 'em plenty that way out there.
She has the love... of every fella.
She does a dance and when she starts, by the River Nile,
The boys all take their old sweethearts and throw 'em to the crocodiles!
Every sheik in the audience jumps up and yells that, "She's immense."
How they love... Egyptian Ella.
The boys hangs a round but she plainly states,
She doesn't care a fig about dates,
And they can't make... Egyptian Ella.
A sheik tried to kidnap her once I'm told
But she shook so much that he lost his hold,
He couldn't take... Egyptian Ella.
So the Pasha wrote her a royal note With his royal fist,
It said because of the dance she does, She's on his royal waiting list.
And that's how fame of a diff'rent sort has come at last from an indoor sport,
To our own... Egyptian Ella.
All the other dancers from the desert to the Nile
One by one admit that they are jealous.
For although they dance each night and wear their sweetest smile,
Ella's tent's the one that draws the fellas.
And yet her dance is something they can't steal,
For nothing else could do it but an eel.
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