Chords for Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye - Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) 1948

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Each morning a missionary advertised with neon signs
_ _ _ He tell the native population that _ civilization [Ebm] is dying
_ _ And _ [Ab] three educated salvages hollered from a bumble tree
_ _ _ _ That [Abm]
civilization is a thing for me [Db] to [Ebm] see
_ [G] _ [Ab] _ [Gb] So bongo bongo bongo I [Bbm] don't want to leave the Congo
No no no no no no
_ _ _ [Db] Bingo bango bongo [Gb] I'm so [Dbm] happy in the [Ebm] jungle I refuse [Ab] to go
_ [Ebm] Don't want no [Bb] bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords [Abm] I make it clear
_ [Ab] That no matter how they coax him I'll stay [Bb] right _ here
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[Bb] _ _ _ I look through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed
Magazine?
[Db] What happens?
I see how people who are civilized bung you with [Eb] _ automobiles
You know you can get hurt [Ab] that way, Dan?
At the movies they have [Dbm] got to pay many coconuts [Ab] to see
What do they see, Donny?
_ _ Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes [Db] of me
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[Ab] So _ [Db] bongo bongo bongo I don't want to leave the Congo
No no no _ _ [G] _ _
[Db] _ no no
[Eb] Bingo bongo bongo I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse [Ab] to go _
Don't want no [Bbm] penthouse, bathtub, _ streetcars, taxis, noise in my _ [Abm] ear _
So no matter how they [Ab] coax him [E]
I'll stay right here
_ [Gb] They _
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_ [Ebm] _ hurry like salvages to get aboard an iron [Bbm] train
The tringalingu hula [B] humbly express
And though it's smoky and it's crowded [Abm] they're too [Ebm] civilized to complain
Aloha toho, so he mine
When [Abm] they've got two [Db] weeks vacation [Ab] they hurry to vacation ground
[Ebm] What do they [Abm] do, Donny?
They swim and they fish but that's what I do all [Db] year round
[Ebm] _ _ [Em] _ [Db] So _ bongo bongo bongo I don't want to leave the Congo
No no no no no
_ _ [Dbm] Bingo _ _ bongo [Bbm] bongo I'm so [Eb] happy in the jungle [Ebm] I refuse to go
_ Don't want [Gb] no jailhouse, shotgun, fish [Abm] hooks, golf clubs, I got my _ _ spears
So no matter how they coax [Ab] him I'll stay [Ebm] right _ here
_ _ [Bb] They have things like the [Ab] autumn bomb
[Abm] So I think I'll stay where [Bb] I am
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Civilization, _ _ [Abm] _ [Gb] I'll [Db] stay right here
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