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number fiftyfour
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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’sa 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 movea 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 jukebox
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i’ma 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
Artist: Earl Grant
Year: 1960
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 163