The Congo (AOM Version)

Assumption of Mary batch 2006's choric interpretation of THE CONGO
Rotary Club of Marikina
November 30, 2005
Parang Elementary School
4th place

Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room
Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable
Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table
Pounded on the table
Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom
Hard as they were able
Boom, boom, boom
With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
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
Cutting through the jungle with a golden track
Then along that river-bank
A thousand miles
Tattooed cannibals danced in files
Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song
And a thigh-bone beating (and a thigh-bone beating, and a thigh-bone beating) on a tin-pan gong

And "BLOOD" screamed the whistles and the fifes of the warriors
"BLOOD" screamed the skull-faced, lean witch-doctor
"Whirl ye the deadly voodoo rattle,
Harry the uplands,
Steal all the cattle,
Rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle, rattle-rattle,
Bing!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!"

A roaring, epic, rag-time tune
From the mouth of the Congo
To the Mountains of the Moon
Death is an Elephant
Torch-eyed and horrible
Foam-flanked and terrible
Boom, steal the pygmies
Boom, kill the Arabs
Boom, kill the white men
Hoooooo...

Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in hell for his hand-maimed host
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell
Listen to the creepy proclamation
Blown through the lairs of the forest-nation
Blown past the white-ants' hill of clay
Blown past the marsh where the butterflies play
"Be careful what you do,
Or Mumbo-jumbo', God of the Congo,
And all of the other gods of the Congo,
Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you."

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call
Danced the juba in their gambling-hall
And laughed fit to kill, and shook the town
And guyed the policemen and laughed them down
With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!

Then I saw the Congo, creeping through the black
Cutting through the jungle with a golden track
A Negro fairyland swung into view
A minstrel river where dreams come true
The ebony palace soared on high
Through the blossoming trees to the evening sky
The inlaid porches and casement shone
With gold and ivory and elephant-bone
And the black crowd laughed till their sides were sore
At the baboon butler in the agate door
And the well-known tunes of the parrot band
That trilled on the bushes of that magic land

A troupe of skull-faced witch-men came
Through the agate doorway in suits of flame
Yea, long-tailed coats with a gold-leaf crust
And hats that were covered with diamond-dust
And the crowd in the court gave a whoop and a call
And danced the juba from wall to wall
But the witch-men suddenly stilled the throng
With a stern cold glare, and a stern old song
"Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you."
Just then from the doorway, as fat as shotes
Came the cake-walk princes in their long red coats
Shoes with a patent-leather shine
And tall silk hats that were red as wine
And they pranced with their butterfly partners there
(Walk with care, walk with care)
Coal-black maidens with pearls in their hair
(Or Mumbo-jumbo, God of the Congo)
Knee-skirts trimmed with the Jessamine sweet
(And all of the other gods of the Congo)
And bells on their ankles and little black feet
(Mumbo-jumbo will hoo-doo you)
And the couples railed at the chant and the frown
(Beware, beware, walk with care)
Of the witch-men lean, and laughed them down
(Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, boom)
Oh, rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile

The cake-walk royalty then began
To walk for a cake that was tall as a man
To the tune of "Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!"
While the witch-men laughed with a sinister air
And sang with the scalawags prancing there
Beware, beware, walk with care
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, Boom!
Oh, rare was the revel, and well worth while
That made those glowering witch-men smile

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[shinshinarta]

naks heheheh :D

[backwoodsgps]

so now now i have to speak a million languages?

could you not make it a little clearer?

please, cuz i love Ya!!!

[backwoodsgps]

most can identify wit you

cuz u cool

awesome R'nt We!!!!!

[amazinglyamezed]

bili kayo sa hardware...marami nun...pili ka black color tapos dapat latex...or tanungin nyo nalang yung ngtitinda...ask kayo kung anong pinta ang water based at pd sa katawan...pro cguro kung di ako nagkakamali eh latex nga yun...

[Veth13]

ano po kya ginamit na black color sa katawan? body paint? san meron nun pls answer AOM

[fallguyphanthom]

shut up!

[s3anexxvi]

magcocomment na ako. namimiss ko ang AOM! hahaha

[achidanielle]

maganda xa..

kia lng prng irap gwn.

well,,

watch out for taguig science high school's version/ .. sa december pa.. ahihi.. :)

:)>-

♥chi♥

[benir11]

man...we aint tht blck! nice vid btw

[benir11]

it iz lol