Riki tiki tavi (Listen to sample)

F - C - G (2x)

F C G

1. You better get into what you got to get into,

F C G

you better get into it now, no slacking please.

F C G

The United Nations ain't really united,

F C G

and the organisations ain't really organised.

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

F C G

Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes no more, my love,

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

F C

2. Everybody who read the Jungle Book knows

G

the Riki tiki tavi is a mongoose who kills snakes.

F C

But when I was a young man, I was led to believe

G

there were organisations to kill my snakes for me,

F C - G

i.e. the Church, i.e. the Government, i.e. School,

F C G

but when I got a little older I learned I had to kill my snakes myself.

+ CHORUS F - C - G (4x)

F C G

3. People walking around, they don't know what they're doing,

F C G

they been lost so long, they don't know what they're looking for.

F C G

Well, I know what I'm a-looking for, but just can't find it,

F C G

I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more.

F - C G

Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more

F - C G

Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

F C G

Riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone,

F C G

riki tiki tavi mongoose has gone.

F C G F

I saw you today, on the number 12 bus,

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you were going my way, going my way.

(Donovan)