Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) Chords

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