Riki Tiki Tavi Songtext

von Donovan

Riki Tiki Tavi
Donovan

Better get into what you got to get into,
Better get into it now, no slacking please,
United Nations ain't really united
And the organizations ain't really organized.
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more, my love,
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

Ev'rybody who read the jungle book a-knows that
Riki tiki tavi is a mongoose who kills snakes.
Well, when I was a young man I was led to believe
There were organizations to kill my snakes for me,
I.e. the church, i.e. the government, i.e. the school-,
But when I got a little older
I learned I had to kill them myself.
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.
Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more, my love,
Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

People walking around they don't know what they're doin',
They been lost so long, they don't know what they're looking for.
Well, I know what I'm looking for but I just can't find it,
I guess I got a look inside of myself some more,
Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more.

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,
I saw you today on a number twelve bus,
You were going my way, my way.