Key: F major
Verse 1
D
A
Bb
A
Bb
A
D
Where, where,
A
Bb
E
Asus4
Bb
Dm
where is the tribe for me?
A
D
Where, living in some primitive stage,
Bm
Esus4
Em
A
D
is that un studied breed
Abdim
Bm
F#
unhelped by Margaret Mead?
D
Bb
Where, where,
Edim
Em
Asus4
A
where is my ethnic group?
Dm
A
Where are those savage
Bm
E
Em
A
D
Who live unseen, unknown?
Bm
Esus4
E
Waiting to show me puberty rites
Fsus4
F
Bb
You're not an entomologist
Fsus4
Bb
Bb
Until you get the word
Bbm
Eb
You're not an ornithologist
Bbm
A
Ab
Until you get the bird
Fm
Db
Like some unfrocked theologist
C
Cdim
Until I write a diatribe
Fm
Ddim
C
On why a tribe is there
D
Dm
Bb
Edim
But where, where
Asus4
D
can they be at?
E
Dbm
Gb
Bm
Where's their natural habitat?
G
Gm
G
Where they still roam free
D
E
A
Anthropologically, tell me where,
Bb
D
Dm
Ddim
Bb
A
searching through the jungle dark and deep,
G
D
Bb
A
on safari, searching for my tribe,
D
A
through the wild birds,
and the poison darts,
and the jungle cats,
A
Bb
A
Food gone, water gone,
Bb
A
searching for my tribe.
Through the boa constrictors,
tss, tss, and the gorillas, ah -ha, and the quicksand,
Cdim
A
tss, tss, and the ah, ah, tss,
Bb
A
Cm
Bb
and the tse tse flies.
G
Eb
Onward through the area,
Bb
Eb
burning with malaria.
F
Dm
and there's no one to be sorry
A
Bb
if I rot with dry rot.
G
Bb
Dm
D
But wait, wait.
Bb
Eb
Look there, look there.
Ebm
Bm
Through the giant bushwood trees,
E
C
Can it be my tribe?
strangely painted savages,
Bb
A
No more laughing hyenas.
No more stampeding elephants.
Hoo, hoo.
No more drums, bubble away.
A
Bb
Bb
No more tss, tss, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Ooh, ooh.
Bb
A
Bb
G
Tse, tse flies. Oh, yes.
buon, buon.
G
Bb
G
Bb
Gm
Well, yes, I wanna, I wanna drive.
Eb
Bb
Eb
And they take me to meet their chief,
Bb
A
and I enter a large hut,
and I hear the strange mu
D
G
D
Bm
Em
D
sic of...
A
D
Oh, no, it can't be, it's...
Fdim
Fm
Bb
Ebm
where is the tribe for me?
Eb
Bb
Eb
One that has not heard of NYU,
Fm
Bb
Eb
D .A .R., or L .B .J.?
Cm
Fsus4
People who bear no allegiance
F
Adim
D
G
to C .I .O. or C .R .A.?
Fm
Bb
Eb
Oh, please, I'm on bended knees.
Bb
Ddim
G
Where are these aborigines
C
Cm
Ab
who are meant to be
Abm
Eb
Eb
my Ph .D.?
Bb
Eb
Bb
Tell me where,
Fm
Bb
where is the tribe for me?
Outro 1
Ebm
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