Chords for Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

Tempo:
156.8 bpm
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Ab

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Bb

Eb

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo) chords
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[Abm] [Db]
Each morning a [Bb] missionary advertised me on science.
tells the native [Ebm] population that civilization is dying.
three educated salvages holler from a [Ab] bamboo tree.
civilization is a thing for me [Db] to [Ebm] see.
bongo, bongo, bongo, I [Db] don't want to leave the Congo.
no, no, no, no.
[Eb] Bingo, bango, bongo, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse [Ab] to go.
100%  ➙  157BPM
Ab
134211114
Db
12341114
Ebm
13421116
Bb
12341111
Eb
12341116
Ab
134211114
Db
12341114
Ebm
13421116
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _
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Each morning a [Bb] missionary advertised me on science.
[Db] _ _ _ He tells the native [Ebm] population that civilization is dying.
_ _ _ _ And three educated salvages holler from a [Ab] bamboo tree.
_ _ That _ _ _ civilization is a thing for me [Db] to [Ebm] see.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ [Ebm] So bongo, bongo, bongo, I [Db] don't want to leave the Congo.
No, no, no, no, no. _ _ _
[Eb] Bingo, bango, bongo, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse [Ab] to go.
_ [Bb] Don't want [Ab] no bright lights, false teeth, or bells, landlords, I make it [Abm] clear.
_ _ [Ab] That no matter how they coax him, I'll stay right _ here.
[Db] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
I look [Eb] through a [Dbm] magazine the missionary's wife conceals.
_ Magazine?
[Eb] What happens?
I see how people who are civilized bung you with [Ebm] automobiles.
You know you can get [Ab] hurt this way, do you? _
[Eb] At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts [Ab] to see.
What do they see, Donny?
_ [E] Uncivilized pictures [Ab] that the newsreel takes [Bbm] of me.
[Ebm] _ _ [Db] _ _ [Ab] _
[Bb] So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the [Db] _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Db] _
Congo.
[Eb] Bingo, bango, bongo, he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go.
_ [Ab] Don't want no penthouse, [Abm] bathtub, streetcars, taxis, noise in my _ ear. _
So [Ab] no matter how they coax him, I'll stay right here.
_ [Gb] _ _ _
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [Eb] They hurry like salvages to get aboard an iron train.
The tringalingu hula humbler express.
And though it's smoky and it's crowded they're too civilized to [Ebm] complain. _ _ _
When [Bb] they've got two weeks vacation [Ab] they hurry to vacation _ ground.
What do they do, Donny?
They [Abm] swim and they fish but that's what I do all [Db] year [Ebm] round.
_ _ _ [Bb] _
_ So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the [Db] Congo.
No, no, no, no, no. _ _ _
_ _ Bingo, bongo, bongo, I'm so happy in the [Ebm] jungle I [Ab] refuse to go. _ _
Don't want no jailhouse, shotgun, fish hooks, [Abm] golf clubs, I got my _ [Ab] spears.
_ So no matter how they coax him, I'll [Eb] stay right here. _ _ _
[Bb] _ They have things like the autumn bomb.
So [F] I think I'll stay where I am.
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Abm] Civilization, [Ab] I'll stay [Db] right here.
_ [Ebm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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