Riki Tiki Tavi

Better get into what you got to get into

Better get into it now, no slackin' please

United Nations ain't really united

And the organization ain't rally organized

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Won't be comin' around for to kill your snake no more, my love

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Everybody who read the Jungle Book know

That Riki Tivi Tavi is a mongoose who kills snakes

When I was a young man I was led to believe

There were organizations for killin' my snakes for me

I.e. the church, i.e. the government

I.e. the schools, but when I got a little bit older

I learned how to kill 'em myself

I said, I mean to get a

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Won't be comin' around for to kill your snake no more, my love

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

People walkin' round that don't know what they're doin'

They been lost so long they don't know what they're lookin' for

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

I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more

Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more, come on, now

Oh, oh, oh, inside of myself some more

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Last time

I saw you today on the number twelve bus

You were going my way (Going my way)