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Each morning a missionary advertise with neon signHe tells the native population that civilization is fineAnd three educated savages holler from a bongo treeThat civilization is a thing for me to seeSo bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the CongoOh no no no no noBingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to goDon't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlordsI make it clear(That no matter how they coax him)I'll stay right hereI looked through a magazine the missionary's wife conceals(A magazine? What happens?)I see how people who are civilized bump you with automobiles(You know you can get hurt that way Daniel?)At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see(What do they see Danny?)Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of meSo bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the CongoOh no no no no noBingle, bangle, bungle, he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to goDon't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxisNoise in my earLetras de canciones(So no matter how they coax him)I'll stay right hereThey hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train(The Tring-galim-bohoo-laham-bah-le Express)And though it's smokey and it's crowded they're too civilized to complainWhen they've got two weeks vacation they hurry to vacation grounds(What do they do Danny?)They swim and they fish, but that's what I do all year roundSo bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the CongoOh no no no no noBingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to goDon't want no jailhouse, shotguns, fish hooks, golf clubsI've got my spear(So no matter how they coax him)I'll stay right hereThey have things like the atom bombSo I think I'll stay where I "am"Civilization, I'll stay right here From Letras Mania