Bamboo Banga Lyrics
Going hundred mile per hour
Going hundred mile per hour
With your radio on
With your radio on
Going hundred mile per hour
India, Sri Lanka, Burma, bamboo banga (hey!)
This the bamboo banga
I said bamboo banga
This the bamboo banga
I said bamboo banga
And we're hittin our racquets like a tennis player
And the drummers do the shit like the macarena
This the jungle banga
Or the cold jammer
I said jungle banga
I said cold jammer
I said jungle banga
I said cold jammer
I want guanabana
I wanna warm my buns this summer summer summer summer
Now I'm sittin' down chillin on some gun powder
Strike / match / light / fire
Who's that girl called Maya?
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
I said M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
Yeah, I'm knocking on the doors of your hummer hummer
Yeah, I'm knocking on the doors of your hummer hummer
Yeah, I'm knocking on the doors of your hummer hummer
You'll be hungry like the wolves hunting dinner dinner
And we're moving with the packs like hyena ena
Barbarella look like she's my dead ringer
When I’m dogging on the bonnet of ya red Honda
I'm a world runner
I'm a road runner
I'm a world runner
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
M.I.A. coming back with power power (power power!)
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
I'm big timer, it's the bamboo banga
jungle like? primitive? that is the stupidest, most culturally ignorant thing i've ever heard. And the Amazon is nowhere near India.
I never thought I could dance like a black girl. This song proved me so, so wrong.
FUCKING AWESOME.
the first little bit is a modern lovers song, "roadrunner"
The bit that goes: "Road runner, road runner Going hundred mile per hour With your radio on" Is from a song called "Roadrunner" written by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, which loads of people covered (Yo La Tengo, Sex Pistols, Joan Jett). So just to be anal and factual.
I always thought she was singing "bamboo bhangra" (before I read the tracklist) but that doesn't really add anything to this discussion cause that's prolly not what she was intending.
This is pretty much one of the most amazing songs...
great song, but i think these lyrics are worng?
i hear at the beginning: somalia, angola, ghana ghana ghana india, sri lanka, burman, bamboo banga!
makes more sense than tomale!
yeah, i think the lyrics are : somalia, angola. but anyways, this song is so hot. and the tamil sample? amazing. it's basically like an anthem for people who live in india and other jungle-like, primitive, amazon places. represent, mathangi!
and also a mistake:
"and we're hittin our RACQUETS like a tennis player"
makes muey more sense
Ha! I was thinking the last bit was "A big tiger, it's the Bengal Banga"
I like mine better :)
aside from the "primitive" comment I agree with most. (I hope you don't mean what I think you mean). This song is sick. The whole album is actually. It's so interesting to see music that I think I am familiar with as a westerner, preformed and composed from a completely different viewpoint. There are so many regional musical influences interwoven in this album it's stunning for the brain. I would never have imagined all these types of music could work together in any way. It's genius.