Mon Piaba-Harry Belafonte

[ti:Mon Piaba] [ar:Harry Belafonte] [al:The Originals: Harry Belafonte] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mon Piaba - Harry Belafonte [00:01.34]When I was a lad of three-foot-three [00:03.92]Certain questions occurred to me [00:06.81]So I asked me father quite seriously [00:09.91]To tell me the story 'bout the bird and bee [00:12.99]He stammered and he stuttered pathetically [00:15.71]And this is what he said to me [00:18.22]He said "The woman piaba and the man piaba [00:21.79]And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass [00:24.82]The lily root gully root belly root uhmm [00:28.56] [00:29.56]And the famous grandy scratch scratch [00:33.08] [00:37.09]It was clear as mud but it covered the ground [00:39.93]And the confusion made the brain go 'round [00:43.00]I went and ask a good friend of mine [00:45.89]Known to the world as Albert Einstein [00:49.97]He said "Son from the beginning of time and creativity [00:53.28]There existed the force of relativity [00:54.87] [00:57.56]Pi r square and a minus ten means a routine only when [01:03.02]The solar system in one light year [01:06.42]Make the Hayden planetarium disappear [01:09.29]So if Mt Everest doesn't move [01:12.20]I am positive that it will prove [01:14.88]That the woman piaba and the man piaba [01:18.13]And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass [01:21.18]The lily root gully root belly root uhmm [01:24.27]And the famous grandy scratch scratch [01:29.20] [01:33.41]It was clear as mud but it covered the ground [01:36.05]And the confusion made the brain go 'round [01:39.08]I grabbed a boat and went abroad [01:41.78]In Baden Baden asked Sigmund Freud [01:45.20]He said "Son from your sad face remove the grouch [01:50.22]Put the body down up on the couch [01:53.31]I can see from your frustration a neurotic sublimation [01:59.22]Hey love and hate is psychosomatic [02:02.35]Your Rorsach shows that you're a peri pathetic [02:05.21]It all started with a broken sibling [02:08.14]In the words of the famous Rudyard Kipling [02:13.01]That the woman piaba and the man piaba [02:16.45]And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass [02:19.51]The lily root gully root belly root uhmm [02:22.72]And the famous grandy scratch scratch [02:27.26]Well I traveled far and I traveled wide [02:29.90]And I don't even have me self a bride [02:33.09]All the great men upon this earth [02:35.91]Have confused me since my birth [02:39.09]I've been over land and been over sea [02:41.99]Trying to find answer 'bout the bird and bee [02:45.11]But now that I am ninety three [02:48.05]I don't give a darn you see [02:50.89]If the woman piaba and the man piaba [02:53.90]And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass [02:56.90]The lily root gully root belly root uhmm [03:00.18]And the famous grandy scratch scratch