House
of Bamboo
Words & Music by Bill Crompton & Norman
Murrells, 1958
Recorded by Earl Grant, 1960
Number fifty-four,
The house with the bamboo door,
Bamboo roof and bamboo walls,
They've even got a bamboo floor!
You must get to know Soho Joe,
He runs an Expresso,
Called the House of Bamboo.
It's-a made of sticks.
Sticks and bricks,
But you can get your kicks
In the house of bamboo.
In this casino, you can drink
a 'chino,
And it's gotcha swingin' to the cha cha
Dance the bolero in a sombrero.
Shake like a snake!
You wanna drop in when the cats
are hoppin'.
Let your two feet move-a to the big beat;
Pick yourself a kitten and listen to a platter
That rocks the jukebox!
I'm-a telling you, when you're
blue,
Well there's a lot to do
In the House of Bamboo. |
