Better get inot what you got to get into
Better get into it now no slacking please
United Nations ain’t really united
Organizations ain’t really organized
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Won’t be comin’ round
To kill your snakes no more my love
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone

Now everybody who read the Jungle Book knows that
Riki Tivi Tavi was a mongoose who killed snakes
And when I was a young man I was led to believe
There were organizations to kill my snakes for me
i.e. the Church, i.e. the government, i.e. the school
but when I got a little older

I learned I had to kill them myself

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Won’t be comin’ round
To kill your snakes no more my love
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
People walking around don’t know what they’re doing
They bin lost so long they don’t know what they’re looking for
I know what I’m a-looking for but I just can’t find it
I guess I’d better look inside of myself some more

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone
I saw you today on a number 12 bus
You were going my way

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