The inspirational word on inspiremethursday.com is “bamboo”.
House of Bamboo
(as recorded at various times by Earl Grant, Andy Williams and Southern Culture on the Skids)
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 stop 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 juke-box!
I’m-a telling you/When you’re blue/Well there’s a lot to do/In the House Of Bamboo.
Lets go go!/You must get to know, Soho Joe/He runs an Expresso/Called the House of Bamboo
In this casino, you can drink a chino/Let your two feet move-a to the big beat;
Pick yourself a kitten and listen to a platter/That rocks
I’m-a telling you/When you’re blue/Well there’s a lot to do/In the House Of Bamboo.
Number fifty-four/The house with the bamboo door/Bamboo roof and bamboo walls/They’ve even got a bamboo floor!
Here is Southern Culture on the Skids performing the song at Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live
I knew it would be either Dick Van Dyke from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, or this song. Good choice! And I believe I was at that SCOTS show with you!
what a cool piece…so much detail!!!
Bamboozled!