
Date of issue: 30.10.2012
Record label: Rendez-Vous
Song language: English
Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) |
Each morning, a missionary advertises with neon sign |
He tells the native population that civilization is fine |
And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree (Eee!Alo ki pah hi sah |
hanah!) |
That civilization is a thing for me to see |
So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no |
Bingle, bangle, bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go Don’t want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it clear |
That no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here |
I looked through a magazine the missionary’s wife concealed (Magazine? |
What happens?) |
I see how people who are civilized bung you with automobile (You know you can |
get hurt that way Daniel?) |
At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see (What do they see, |
Danny?) |
Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don’t wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no |
Bingle, bangle, bungle, he’s so happy in the jungle, he refuse to go Don’t want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my ear |
So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here |
They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train (The |
Tringulu-guhu-Lahumbula express!) |
And though it’s smoky and it’s crowded, they’re too civilized to complain |
(Alo-kono ho sah emah hinah!) |
When they’ve got two weeks vacation, they hurry to vacation ground (What do they do, Danny?) |
They swim and they fish, but that’s what I do all year round |
So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no |
Bingle, bangle, bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go Don’t want no jailhouse, shotgun, fish-hooks, golf clubs, I got my spears |
So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here |
They have things like the atom bomb, so I think I’ll stay where I «om» |
Civilization, I’ll stay right here! |
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