Kitty
Sinless and Purrfect
CIVILIZATION (BONGO, BONGO, BONGO)
From the Broadway Musical "Angel In The Wings" (1947)
(Bob Hilliard / Carl Sigman)
Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters - 1947
Ray McKinley & His Orch. - 1947
Louis Prima & His Orch. - 1947
Jack Smith - 1947
Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1947
ANDREWS SISTERS:
Each morning a missionary advertise with neon sign
He tells the native population that civilization is fine
And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree
That civilization is a thing for me to see
DANNY KAYE:
So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to 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
AS: That no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
DK: I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
AS: Magazine? What happens?
DK: I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobiles
AS: You know you can get hurt that way Daniel
DK: At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see
AS: What do they see Danny?)
DK: Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me
AS: So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the Congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go
DK: Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis
Noise in my ear
AS: So no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
AS: They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
And though it's smoky and it's crowded
They're too civilized to complain
DK: When they've got two weeks vacation
They hurry to vacation ground
AS: What do they do Danny?
DK: They swim and they fish,
But that's what I do all year round
ALL: So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go
DK: Don't want no jailhouse,
AS: Shotguns,
DK: Fish hooks,
AS: Golf clubs,
DK: I got my spears
AS: So no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
AS: They have things like the atom bomb
DK: So I think I'll stay where I a-a-m
ALL: Civilization, I'll stay right here
From the Broadway Musical "Angel In The Wings" (1947)
(Bob Hilliard / Carl Sigman)
Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters - 1947
Ray McKinley & His Orch. - 1947
Louis Prima & His Orch. - 1947
Jack Smith - 1947
Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1947
ANDREWS SISTERS:
Each morning a missionary advertise with neon sign
He tells the native population that civilization is fine
And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree
That civilization is a thing for me to see
DANNY KAYE:
So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to 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
AS: That no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
DK: I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
AS: Magazine? What happens?
DK: I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobiles
AS: You know you can get hurt that way Daniel
DK: At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see
AS: What do they see Danny?)
DK: Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me
AS: So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the Congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go
DK: Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis
Noise in my ear
AS: So no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
AS: They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train
And though it's smoky and it's crowded
They're too civilized to complain
DK: When they've got two weeks vacation
They hurry to vacation ground
AS: What do they do Danny?
DK: They swim and they fish,
But that's what I do all year round
ALL: So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go
DK: Don't want no jailhouse,
AS: Shotguns,
DK: Fish hooks,
AS: Golf clubs,
DK: I got my spears
AS: So no matter how they coax him
DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here
AS: They have things like the atom bomb
DK: So I think I'll stay where I a-a-m
ALL: Civilization, I'll stay right here
