a popular song from 1922
words and music by Nat Vincent, Billy Frisch and Billy Hueston
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Far away in Jimbo Jambo
Lives a girl named Simbo Sambo
And they say this little Tambo steals a heart away
When they hear her pretty lingo
They fall for this dark-skinned Bimbo
Anyone whose been to Jimbo has this much to say
Chorus
I’m goin’ back to Jimbo Jambo
Find this little Simbo Sambo
She’s the sweetest Honey Lambo
That you have ever seen
When this Bimbo starts to dance
To tom-tom melodies
Why she just shakes the coconuts
And fruits right off the trees
No one knows how much I ambo
Crazy ’bout this little Tambo
I’d live in a hut of bamboo
If she’s settle down
Oh, I love her and she loves me
Oh gee, oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gee
Oh, I don’t give a dimbo
For any other Bimbo in Jimbo Jambo Town
- All the men in Jimbo Jambo
Rave about this little Sambo
But the women gab and gambo
Ev’ry time they meet
Over fences made of bamboo
How this little maid they slambo
Tho’ they pan this pretty Tambo
Still she can’t be beat
Chorus
I’m goin’ back to Jimbo Jambo
Find this little Simbo Sambo
She’s the sweetest Honey Lambo
That you have ever seen
When this Bimbo starts to dance
The movements she goes thru’
Would make a jelly fish jump up
And kiss a kangaroo
No one knows how much I ambo
Crazy ’bout this little Tambo
I’d live in a hut of bamboo
If she’s settle down
It don’t cost much to keep a wife
A palm tree dresses her for life
Oh, I don’t give a dimbo
For any other Bimbo in Jimbo Jambo Town
Sung here by Fred Feild: