Lyrics: Walter Donaldson
Music: Walter Donaldson
Sung by Jerry Garcia with Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. For some reason it is listed with
ASCAP as being written by Garcia, McKernan, Weir and Hunter.
Way down South, way down in BorneoNotes
There's a wild dance called the horn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba-ba-ba bahm ba-bahm
You will dance till the break of dawn-eo
Even though you've got a corn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba ba-bahm
Wild man stands with his clothes all torn-eo (note 1)
Toot toot toots on his bamboo horn-eo
While the bamboo babies start to sway
Start to sway, start to sway, start to sway
When you see them dance the horn-eo
You will put your jewels in pawn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba ba-bahm
Way down South, way down in Borneo
There's a wild dance called the horn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba-ba-ba bahm ba-bahm
You will dance till the break of dawn-eo
Even though you've got a corn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba ba-bahm
Wild man stands with his clothes all torn-eo
Toot toot toots on his bamboo horn-eo
While the bamboo babies start to sway
Start to sway, start to sway, start to sway
When you see them dance the horn-eo
You will put your jewels in pawn-eo
Way down, on Borneo Bay
Ba-ba ba-bahm
| Grateful Dead-related Recordings | ||||
| Date | Album | |||
| Jul 1964 | Mother Mcree's Uptown Jug Champions | |||