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House of Bamboo
Words & Music by Bill Crompton & Norman Murrells, 1958Recorded by Earl Grant, 1960
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Number fifty-four,
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The house with the bamboo door,
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Bamboo roof and bamboo walls,
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They've even got a bamboo floor!
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You must get to know Soho Joe,
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He runs an Expresso,
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Called the House of Bamboo.
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It's-a made of sticks.
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Sticks and bricks,
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But you can get your kicks
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In the house of bamboo.
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In this ca - si - no, you can drink a chi no,
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And it's gotcha swingin' to the cha cha
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Dance the bo - le - ro in a som - bre - ro.
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Shake like a snake!
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You wanna drop in when the cats are hop - pin'.
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Let your two feet move-a to the big beat;
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Pick yourself a kit - ten and listen to a plat - ter
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That rocks the juke-box!
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I'm-a telling you, when you're blue,
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Well there's a lot to do
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In the House Of Bamboo.
I had to overcome my own ignorance on this one, when I went looking for it -- I was convinced it was Nat King Cole singing it. It wasn't -- it was Earl Grant. Finding things gets a whole lot easier when you look for stuff that actually exists.