Shang-A-Lang

(My God, it's full of stars)

Let's dig, let's jump
Let's go down to the river and a-hum-ah hum-ah hump
Your tail, tail wag

Let's go down to the kennel and shal-ah shal-ah shag

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

Your spit, my spine
Gonna make me a-holler with a full bodied wine
Don't bite, don't talk
Let's go down to the sty and p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

My heart nailed to your door in a gesture of desire
Think I'll follow the path of the Gautama
And set myself, set myself on fire
You got a match? Or gasoline?
Why do you treat me so m-m-m-m-mean?
You got a gun? Got a bullet?
Got a finger on the trigger
Gonna p-p-p-p-pull it

Yeah! Take some of this!

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

[Spoken: When all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last"]

Good intentions paved the road to hell
High ideals do the same
Think I'll follow the path of the Gautama
And set myself, set myself aflame

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang, oh!

Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang, shang-a-lang
Shang-a-lang-dang-dang
Shang-a-lang