The Chad Mitchell Trio

An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)

E. Y. Harburg

[Intro]
Hey-a, hi, a-wimoweh, hey-a, a-wimoweh, hey-a, a-wimoweh, hey-a

A wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh
A wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh, a wimoweh

Dee-dee-dee-dee-o

[Verse 1]
The question is are the Africans in Africa prepared for independence?
Do they have enough delinquents among their juvenile descendants?

[Verse 2]
Can they fill their air with smog enough, their rivers with pollutions?
Are their citizens evolved enough for mental institutions?

[Verse 3]
Are they smart enough to know enough to regulate their taxes
So the poor can pay the rich to keep the poor flat in their axis?

[Verse 4]
Do they know how to destroy what they produce for their enjoyment
Or employ enough machines to keep employees from employment?

[Verse 5]
Have the natives the intelligence, the, the native wisdom or the dexterity
To establish atom bases as the base of their prosperity?

[Verse 6]
In essence, have we morally the right to even plan to let the backward nations join the brotherhood of man?

[Outro]
Wi-mo-weh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Wann wurde das Lied “An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)” von The Chad Mitchell Trio veröffentlicht?: Das Lied An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning) wurde im Jahr 1964, auf dem Album “The Slightly Irreverent Mitchell Trio” veröffentlicht.
Wer hat das Lied “An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)” von The Chad Mitchell Trio komponiert?: Das Lied “An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)” von The Chad Mitchell Trio wurde von E. Y. Harburg komponiert.