Where Is the Tribe for Me chords by Walter Marks
Verse 1
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Where, where,
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where is the tribe for me?
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Where, living in some primitive stage,
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is that un studied breed
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who've somehow managed
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coming of age,
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unhelped by Margaret Mead?
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Where, where,
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where is my ethnic group?
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Where are those savage
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pre -Adamites
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Who live unseen, unknown?
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Waiting to show me puberty rites
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That I can call my own?
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You're not an entomologist
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Until you get the word
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You're not an ornithologist
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Until you get the bird
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Like some unfrocked theologist
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I haven't got a prayer
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I'm not an anthropologist
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Until I write a diatribe
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On why a tribe is there
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But where, where
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can they be at?
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Where's their natural habitat?
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Where they still roam free
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Anthropologically, tell me where,
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where is the tribe for?
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Sometimes I,
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I see myself searching,
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Dm
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searching through the jungle dark and deep,
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on safari, searching for my tribe,
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through the wild birds,
and the poison darts,
and the jungle cats,
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And the tse tse flies.
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Food gone, water gone,
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all the guides have run away.
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And the drums, the drums,
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searching for my tribe.
Through the boa constrictors,
tss, tss, and the gorillas, ah -ha, and the quicksand,
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tss, tss, and the ah, ah, tss,
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and the tse tse flies.
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Onward through the area,
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burning with malaria.
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Alone on my safari
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and there's no one to be sorry
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if I rot with dry rot.
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But wait, wait.
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Look there, look there.
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Through the giant bushwood trees,
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grass huts, cooking fires.
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Can it be my tribe?
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Now they're coming,
strangely painted savages,
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and at last I've found them.
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Here is the tribe for me.
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No more laughing hyenas.
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Hee, hee, hee.
No more stampeding elephants.
Hoo, hoo.
No more drums, bubble away.
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No more tss, tss, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Ooh, ooh.
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Tse, tse flies. Oh, yes.
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Here, here is my tribe.
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And now they come to
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greet me crying,
buon, buon.
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Well, yes, I wanna, I wanna drive.
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And they take me to meet their chief,
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and I enter a large hut,
and I hear the strange mu
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sic of...
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Oh, no, it can't be, it's...
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Albert, you've beat me to it again.
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Albert, tell me, please, where,
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where,
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where is the tribe for me?
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One that has not heard of NYU,
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D .A .R., or L .B .J.?
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People who bear no allegiance
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to C .I .O. or C .R .A.?
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Oh, please, I'm on bended knees.
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Where are these aborigines
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who are meant to be
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my Ph .D.?
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Tell me where,
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where is the tribe for me?
Outro 1
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Where Is the Tribe for Me
Walter Marks
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