I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond a couple days ago and Raymond was telling his parents that one night, Him and Robert snuck out of the house to see a Jethro Tull concert with peppermint schnapps, and Robert got drunk and kept saying that "Bungle in the Jungle" was the greatest song ever written.
I never heard it, personally, but I'm downloading it now. Is it that good?
― Voodoo Child, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)
Pretty damn good, especially with schnapps. I know from experience.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
Walking through forests of palm tree apartments ---
Scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents
Down by the waterhole --- drunk every friday ---
Eating their nuts --- saving their raisins for sunday.
Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows ---
They’re fast but they’re lazy, and sleep in green meadows.
Let’s bungle in the jungle --- well, that’s all right by me.
I’m a tiger when I want love,
But I’m a snake if we disagree.
Just say a word and the boys will be right there:
With claws at your back to send a chill through the night air.
Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn’t be bolder.
I’ll write on your tombstone, ``i thank you for dinner.’’
This game that we animals play is a winner.
Let’s bungle in the jungle --- well, that’s all right by me.
I’m a tiger when I want love,
But I’m a snake if we disagree.
The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
And he who made kittens put snakes in the grass.
He’s a lover of life but a player of pawns ---
Yes, the king on his sunset lies waiting for dawn
To light up his jungle
As play is resumed.
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.
― b'angelo, Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)
khm, "Skating Away ..." 's way better, actually ...withoutta scnapps, tho.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)
anyone else here remember the play that one of the guys from Whitesnake* wrote about touring with Tull (and "Bungle..." in particular)? it was awesome
*Bernie Marsden - I just remembered!
― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)
This is one of my absolute two least favorite songs ever recorded. It actually makes me PHYSICALLY upset to hear.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
the lyrics read like something that won a junior-high poetry competition
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)
I totally thought this was actually about some guy who lived in the jungle Tarzan-style. The truth is a little disappointing. I like the song anyway.
My cousin and I were singing "Aqualung" the other night (with wine).
― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)
One thing is certain. You're better off drinking while listening to Tull than not.
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)
the lyrics read like something that won a junior-high poetry competition -- Banana Nutrament (straightu...), August 4th, 2005.
I completely agree with that. I think that "Bungle in the Jungle" would have been fine as a non-album single. Without it, "War Child" would probably be my favourite Jethro Tull album.
― Pangolino 2, Friday, 5 August 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)
two years pass...
the lyrics read like something that won a junior-high poetry competition
And? . . .
― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 17 November 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)