Each morning a missionary advertise with neon sign   He tells the native population that civilization is fine   And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree   That civilization is a thing for me to see      So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo   Oh no no no no no   Bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go   Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords   I make it clear   (That no matter how they coax him)   I'll stay right here      I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife conceals   (A magazine? What happens?)   I see how people who are civilized bump you with automobiles   (You know you can get hurt that way Daniel?)   At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see   (What do they see Danny?)   Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me      So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the Congo   Oh no no no no no   Bingle, bangle, bungle, he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go   Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis   Noise in my ear   (So no matter how they coax him)   I'll stay right here      They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train   (The Tring-galim-bohoo-laham-bah-le Express)   And though it's smokey and it's crowded they're too civilized to complain   When they've got two weeks vacation they hurry to vacation grounds   (What do they do Danny?)   They swim and they fish, but that's what I do all year round      So bongo, bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo   Oh no no no no no   Bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go   Don't want no jailhouse, shotguns, fish hooks, golf clubs   I've got my spear   (So no matter how they coax him)   I'll stay right here      They have things like the atom bomb   So I think I'll stay where I "am"   Civilization, I'll stay right here