MY LITTLE BIMBO (DOWN ON THE BIMBO ISLE)
From the Broadway revue "Silks And Satins" (1920)
(Grant Clarke / Walter Donaldson)


Frank Crumit - 1920


Also recorded by: The Hoosier Hot Shots; Lu Watters; 
Bob Schulz & His Frisco Jazz Band; Papa Blue Jensen.




Sailor Bill McCoy was a handsome sailor boy
His ship got wrecked awhile, on a Fiji-Iji Isle
He led a savage life and he hunted with a knife
He said, "I'll tell you all about it, don't tell my wife, because....


I've got a Bimbo down on the Bamboo Isle 
She's waiting there for me, beneath a bamboo tree
Believe me, she's got all the other Bimbo's beat a mile
She dances daily, gayly, she'd make a hit with Barnum and Bailey
I'll build a bungalow on the Bamboo Isle
'Cause when I go again, I'll stay awhile
I've seen wrecks, plenty of wrecks out on the ragin' sea
But, by heck, you've never seen a wreck like the wreck she made of me
And, all she wore was a great big Zulu smile 
My little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle


William's boss said, "Bill, a Captain's job you'll fill
On a ship that's going North, today it's going forth"
A Captain's job is fine, but Bill said, "I'll decline
I'll Take half pay as a sailor on that ship of mine, 'cause"....


I've got a Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle
She's waiting there for me beneath a bamboo tree
Believe me, she's got all the other Bimbo's beat a mile
She dances daily, gayly, she plays a mean ukelele
I'll build a bungalow on the Bamboo Isle 
"Cause when I go again, I'll stay a while
"What's that? What's a Bimbo mean? Please take my advice
I don't know what "Bimbo" means, but I think it's something nice
Everybody loves her, even the crocodiles
My little Bimbo, down on the Bamboo Isle



(Contributed by Mel - December 2007)