Hard as they were able,

Boom, boom, Boom,

With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom,

Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom.

Then I had religion, Then I had a vision.

I could not turn from their revel in derision.

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black, |More deliberate. Solemnly chanted.|

Cutting through the jungle with a golden track.

Then along that riverbank

A thousand miles