| Each morning, a missionary advertises with neon sign
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| He tells the native population that civilization is fine
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| And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree (Eee!Alo ki pah hi sah
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| hanah!)
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| That civilization is a thing for me to see
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| So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
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| 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
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| That no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here
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| I looked through a magazine the missionary’s wife concealed (Magazine?
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| What happens?)
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| I see how people who are civilized bung you with automobile (You know you can
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| get hurt that way Daniel?)
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| At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see (What do they see,
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| Danny?)
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| 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
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| 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
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| So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here
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| They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train (The
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| Tringulu-guhu-Lahumbula express!)
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| And though it’s smoky and it’s crowded, they’re too civilized to complain
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| (Alo-kono ho sah emah hinah!)
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| When they’ve got two weeks vacation, they hurry to vacation ground (What do they do, Danny?)
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| They swim and they fish, but that’s what I do all year round
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| So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don’t wanna leave the Congo, oh no no no no no
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| 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
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| So, no matter how they coax him, I’ll stay right here
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| They have things like the atom bomb, so I think I’ll stay where I «om»
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| Civilization, I’ll stay right here! |