Donovan Riki Tiki Tavi Lyrics

Riki Tiki Tavi Lyrics

Better get into what you gotta get into

Better get into it now, no slacking please

United Nations ain't really united

And the organization ain't really organized



Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Won't be coming around

For to kill your snakes no more my love

Riki Tiki Tavi mongoose is gone



Everybody who read the Jungle Book

Knows that Riki Tiki Tavi's a mongoose who kills snakes

When I was a young man I was led to believe

There were organizations to kill my snakes for me

IE, the church, IE, the government, IE, the school

But when I got a little older I learned how to kill them myself



I said, "I need to get Riki Tiki, mongoose is gone"

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Won't be coming around for to kill your snakes, no more my love

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone



People walking around, they don't know what they're doing

They been lost so long, they don't know what they're looking for

Well, I know what I'm looking for but I just can't find it

I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more



Oh oh oh, inside of myself some more, some more now

Oh oh oh, inside of myself some more



Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone

Riki Tiki Tavi, mongoose is gone, last time



I saw you today

You were going my way

Going my way