Key: D major
Verse 1
as you know,
they're allowing anybody into colleges nowadays,
you know.
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They even went so far
as to allow me into a Ruskin College
in Oxford for a couple of years.
while I was there,
there was a chap called Mambo Makoko,
and he came from Tanganyika.
He was a lovely lad, a smashing lad,
and he was involved in a
colour bar incident,
about which I thought I'd write
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a wee song.
Mumbo was a dusky man,
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The sun had burned him brown,
But when he met with the colour bar,
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It never got him down.
He'd ask them,
What colour is the good lord's skin?
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Tell me, brother, do
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Or is he just like you?
He went into a bar one night
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But he heard the barman say
We don't want no coloured skin
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So Mumbo then said pray
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Tell me, brother, do
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Or is he just like you?
He went to pray in Pretoria
But the preacher's face turned blue
He thumped on his Bible and
he told Mambo
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You're sittin' in the white man's pew
Oh, tell me,
what color is the good Lord's skin?
Tell me, brother, do
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Or is he just like you?
He went in search of a room one day
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But the landlord turned him down
Saying, you can bet we've a room to let
the good lord's skin?
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Tell me, brother, do
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Or is he just like you?
Outro 1
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