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Song Details
Duration: 3:19 
Release Date: 7/24/1947  (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Lyrics By: Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Music By: Bob Hilliard/Carl Sigman (Stavro Arrgolus) 
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Released By: RCA Victor 20-2400 (single) (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Published By: Better Half Music Co./Music Sales Corp. (Stavro Arrgolus) 
Licensing: ASCAP  #330062561 (Stavro Arrgolus) 
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A particular favorite of mine when I was a kid, this version by Louis Prima always had more of an appeal to me than the one by Danny Kaye and the Andrews Sisters.- Stavro Arrgolus
Facts:
  • From the Broadway musical "Angel In The Wings" (1947) (Stavro Arrgolus)
  • Song Lyrics:
    ('jungle' noises)

    Bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo
    Oh no no no no no
    No no no no no!
    Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle and I'll tell you
    so you will know

    Each morning, a missionary advertises neon sign
    He tell the native population that civilization is fine
    Every educated savage is hollerin' from a bamboo tree
    That civilization is a thing for me to see

    Whoa, bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo
    Oh no no no no no
    Bingo, 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 me, I'll stay right here

    Now, I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
    I see the people who are civilized bang you with automobile
    At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see
    Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me

    So, bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't wanna leave the Congo,
    Oh no no no no no-

    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
    When they've got two weeks vacation, they hurry to vacation ground
    They swim and they fish, ha, 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
    No no no no no!
    Bingo, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go
    Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords... streetcars, taxis-
    We make it clear!

    They have things like the atom bomb
    so I think I'll stay where I "ahm"
    Civilization, no no no no no! I stay right here!

    ©1947 Hilliard/Sigman
    (Stavro Arrgolus)
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    Current Rating 10.0 (2 votes)
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