Happy Hottentots 1916 'Robinson Crusoe Jr.'

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Mar 2005

'Way down in the jungle
those Hottentots are playing,
'way down in the savaged,
down in the ravaged land;
where palm trees are swaying,
they're cabareting on the sand,
The ocean a rolling
makes us a tuneful band.
Hunga! Hunga! Hunga!
They sing around the fire,
and as the flames grow higher,
they have a banquet grand.

Happy, happy Hottentots
upon a ragtime isle,
doing funny turkeytrots
in Vernon Castle style;
each great big Zulu
can dance like a Lulu,
off in the forest
see them stealing through:
Look out! They'll get you!
If a victim comes along,
they'll take him right away.
When he hears their raggy song,
he'd better start to pray,
for they will take him
and bake him awhile,
oh, those dancing Hottentots
upon that ragtime isle.

Happy, happy Hottentots
upon a ragtime isle,
doing funny turkeytrots
in Vernon Castle style;
each great big Zulu
can dance like a Lulu,
off in the forest
see them stealing through:
Look out! They'll get you!
If a victim comes along,
they'll take him right away.
When he hears their raggy song,
he'd better start to pray,
for they will take him
and bake him awhile,
oh, those dancing Hottentots
upon that ragtime isle.

'Way down in the jungle
those Hottentots are playing,
'way down in the savaged,
down in the ravaged land;
where palm trees are swaying,
they're cabareting on the sand,
The ocean a rolling
makes us a tuneful band.
Hunga! Hunga! Hunga!
They sing around the fire,
and as the flames grow higher,
they have a banquet grand.

Happy, happy Hottentots
upon a ragtime isle,
doing funny turkeytrots
in Vernon Castle style;
each great big Zulu
can dance like a Lulu,
off in the forest
see them stealing through:
Look out! They'll get you!
If a victim comes along,
they'll take him right away.
When he hears their raggy song,
he'd better start to pray,
for they will take him
and bake him awhile,
oh, those dancing Hottentots
upon that ragtime isle.

Happy, happy Hottentots
upon a ragtime isle,
doing funny turkeytrots
in Vernon Castle style;
each great big Zulu
can dance like a Lulu,
off in the forest
see them stealing through:
Look out! They'll get you!
If a victim comes along,
they'll take him right away.
When he hears their raggy song,
he'd better start to pray,
for they will take him
and bake him awhile,
oh, those dancing Hottentots
upon that ragtime isle.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Happy Hottentots 1916
Music by Sigmund Romberg - Lyrics by Harold Atteridge
From - "Robinson Crusoe Jr." - A Musical Extravaganza with Al Jolson
As Presented by The Winter Garden Company.
© 1916 by G. Schirmer Inc.
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 22 March 2005 at 20.31
in association with Doug Grierson
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This is a cracking piece and I did a repeat as an act
of sheer self-indulgence as it is Sigmund Romberg! :-)
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