Chords for Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

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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.
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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.
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[Bb] So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the [Db] _
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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.
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_ [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.
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_ 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.
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