[00:09.36]Each morning a missionary advertise with neon sign[00:15.08]He tells the native population that civilization is fine[00:21.21]And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree[00:27.28]That civilization is a thing for me to see[00:33.16]So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the Congo[00:36.77]Oh no no no no no[00:39.94]Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go[00:44.99]Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords[00:49.38]I make it clear[00:51.95]That no matter how they coax him[00:54.50]I'll stay right here[01:01.85]I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed[01:05.60](Magazine? What happens?)[01:07.76]I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobiles[01:11.81](You know you can get hurt that way Daniel)[01:13.84]At the movies they have to pay many coconuts to see[01:17.98](What do they see Darling?)[01:20.11]Uncivilized pictures that the newsreels take of me[01:25.13]So bongo, bongo, bong he don't want to leave the Congo[01:29.49]Oh no no no no no[01:32.68]Bingle, bangle, bungle he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go[01:37.77]Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis[01:42.02]Noise in my ear[01:44.69]So no matter how they coax him[01:47.08]I'll stay right here[01:54.71]They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train[02:00.65]And though it's smoky and crowded they're too civilized to complain[02:06.85]When they've got two weeks vacation they hurry to vacation grounds[02:11.09](What do they do Danny)[02:12.84]They swin and they fish but that's what I do all year round[02:18.74]So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the Congo[02:22.51]Oh no no no no no[02:25.64]Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go[02:30.83]Don't want no jailhouse, shotguns, fish hooks, golf clubs[02:35.14]I've got my spear[02:37.87]So no matter how they coax him[02:40.43]I'll stay right here[02:44.13]They have things like the atom bomb[02:47.32]So I think I'll stay where I own[02:50.22]Civilization, I'll stay right here