* = strum once
[spoken] Ladies and Gentlemen, curl PT Chester with boys are proud to present Bumbo
Chumbo and the Zimbabwe Songbirds!
D
Do you see banana man
D A
Hopping over on the white hot sand
A
Here he come with some for me
D
Freshly taken from banana tree
(1,2,3,4)
D
Banana man me want a tan
A
Give me double and a bonus one
Give me more for all me friends
D
Dis banana flow never end
G D
Do you want a banana?
A D
Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
G D
Do you want a banana?
A D
Dis banana for you
D
Tonight we dance around the flame
A
Then we get to play the spirit game
Spirit names we shout out loud
D
Shake the thunder from the spirit cloud
Morning songbirds in the tree
A
Chant a tune to let the spirits free
Then we see them in the night
D
Spirits jumpin by the fire light
G D
Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana)
A D
Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
G
Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana)
A D
Dis banana for you
( oh ho ho) (ahhh)
D A
Look you your too uptight you know
D A
You can laugh and kick it back and go (weee)
D A
But without a rhythm or a rhyme
D A
You do not banana all the time
D A
Fly away from city on the run
D A
Try to make a little fun
Continue D and A as before
D A
Look you, come to de bungalow
D A
African't you tell me told you so
D A
Don't you love de bumping of de drum
D A
Make you shake until de bum go numb
D A
Let de bongo play you till you drop
D A
Dis banana never stop
D *
Forget all your troubles and go with the flow
D *
Forget about whatever you may never know
D *
Like whether whatever you doing is whatever you should
D
And whether anything you ever do is ever anything good
D A
And then forget about banana when it stick in your throat
D A
And when it make you wanna bellow but you stuck in a choke
D
And then forget about de yellow from de beckoning man
D A D
Who make you take another one and make a mock of your plan
D A
Bungalay, bungalow
D A
Make up your mind and tell me no
D A
Well it's nine o'clock and it's getting dark
D A
And the sun is falling from the sky
G D
I've never left so early
G A
And you may wonder why
D * D *
Tomorrow morning on de plane
D * A
No banana make you go insane
D
Floating back to busy town
A
No banana make you want to frown
G D
Do you want a banana?
A D
Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
G D
Do you want a banana?
A D
Dis banana for you
