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Civilization (Bongo, Bongo Bongo)
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Louis Prima
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Each morning a missionary advertise 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
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That civilization is a thing for me to see
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So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the Congo
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Oh no no no no no
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Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go
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Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords
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I make it clear
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That no matter how they coax him
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Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
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I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
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Magazine? What happens?
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I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobiles
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You know you can get hurt that way Daniel
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At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see
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What do they see Danny?)
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Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me
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So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the Congo
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Oh no no no no no
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Bingle, bangle, bungle he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go
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Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis
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Noise in my ear
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So no matter how they coax him
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Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
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They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
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And though it's smoky and it's crowded
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They're too civilized to complain
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When they've got two weeks vacation
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They hurry to vacation ground
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What do they do Danny?
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They swim and they fish,
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But that's what I do all year round
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So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo
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Oh no no no no no
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Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go
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Don't want no jailhouse,
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Shotguns,
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Fish hooks,
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Golf clubs,
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I got my spears
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So no matter how they coax him
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Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
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They have things like the atom bomb
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So I think I'll stay where I a-a-m
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Civilization, I'll stay right here
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