Lyrics Jimbo Jambo - Rufus Wainwright, Vince Giordano, The Nighthawks

Jimbo Jambo

Far away in Jimbo Jambo
Lives a girl named Simbo Sambo
And they say that little tambo
steals your heart away
When they hear her pretty lingo
They fall for this dark-skinned bimbo
Anyone who’s been to Jimbo
has this much to say
I’m going back to Jimbo Jambo
Find this little Simbo Sambo
She’s the sweetest honey lambo
that you’ve ever seen
When this bimbo starts to dance
to tom-tom melodies
Why she just shakes the coconut
and fruit right off the tree
No one knows how much I am-bo
Crazy bout this little tambo
I’d live in a hut of bamboo
if she’d settle down
Oh, I love her
and she loves me
Oh gee, oh gosh
Oh gosh, oh gee
Oh, I don’t give a timbo
for any other bimbo
in Jimbo Jambo Town
All the men in Jimbo Jambo
rave about this little sambo
But the women gab and gambo
every time they meet
Over fences made of bamboo
How this little maid they slambo
Though they pan this pretty tambo
Still she can’t be beat
I’m going back to Jimbo Jambo
Find this little Simbo Sambo
She’s the sweetest honey lambo
that you’ve ever seen
All they do is sing and dance
It’s just a land of joy
I’ve heard gray-haired daddies holler
«Ma!
Come get your boy!»
No one knows how much I am-bo
Crazy bout this little tambo
I’d live in a hut of bamboo
if she’d settle down
It don’t cost much to keep a wife
A palm tree dresses one for life
Oh, I don’t give a timbo
for any other bimbo
in Jimbo Jambo Town
Right this way
Step this way to the big arena
Of course you remember La Belle Fatima
Wait til you see Simbo’s movements
Every one with late improvement
Friends, at shimmying
she’s a master
She’ll shake off a porridge (?) plaster
She’s imported
Hot Tobasco
Aaah
Make way, yokums (?)
Here she comes
Not much style
Not much speed
but boy, she shakes a wicked weed
Oh, I don’t give a timbo
for any other bimbo
in Jimbo Jambo Town