Jimbo Jambo - Rufus Wainwright, Vince Giordano, The Nighthawks

Far away in Jimbo Jambo

Lives a girl named Simbo Sambo

And they say that little tambo

steals your heart away

When they hear her pretty lingo

They fall for this dark-skinned bimbo

Anyone who’s been to Jimbo

has this much to say

I’m going back to Jimbo Jambo

Find this little Simbo Sambo

She’s the sweetest honey lambo

that you’ve ever seen

When this bimbo starts to dance

to tom-tom melodies

Why she just shakes the coconut

and fruit right off the tree

No one knows how much I am-bo

Crazy bout this little tambo

I’d live in a hut of bamboo

if she’d settle down

Oh, I love her

and she loves me

Oh gee, oh gosh

Oh gosh, oh gee

Oh, I don’t give a timbo

for any other bimbo

in Jimbo Jambo Town

All the men in Jimbo Jambo

rave about this little sambo

But the women gab and gambo

every time they meet

Over fences made of bamboo

How this little maid they slambo

Though they pan this pretty tambo

Still she can’t be beat

I’m going back to Jimbo Jambo

Find this little Simbo Sambo

She’s the sweetest honey lambo

that you’ve ever seen

All they do is sing and dance

It’s just a land of joy

I’ve heard gray-haired daddies holler

«Ma!

Come get your boy!»

No one knows how much I am-bo

Crazy bout this little tambo

I’d live in a hut of bamboo

if she’d settle down

It don’t cost much to keep a wife

A palm tree dresses one for life

Oh, I don’t give a timbo

for any other bimbo

in Jimbo Jambo Town

Right this way

Step this way to the big arena

Of course you remember La Belle Fatima

Wait til you see Simbo’s movements

Every one with late improvement

Friends, at shimmying

she’s a master

She’ll shake off a porridge (?) plaster

She’s imported

Hot Tobasco

Aaah

Make way, yokums (?)

Here she comes

Not much style

Not much speed

but boy, she shakes a wicked weed

Oh, I don’t give a timbo

for any other bimbo

in Jimbo Jambo Town