ON THE AMAZON            Don McLean


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There's a danger zone, not a stranger zone
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Than the little plot I walk on that I call my own,
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Full of eerie sights; weird and scary sights,
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Every vicious animal that creeps and crawls and bites.


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On the Amazon the prophylactics prowl -
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On the Amazon the hypodermics howl
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On the Amazon you'll hear a scarab scowl
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And sting - zodiacs on the wing.
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All the stalactites and vicious vertebrae
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Hunt the stalagmites while laryngitis slay
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All the parasites that come from Paraguay in the Spring.
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Snarling equinox among the rocks will sieze you
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While the fahrenheit comes out at night to freeze you.
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Wild duodenums are lurking in the trees
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And the jungle swarms with green apostrophes
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Oh the Amazon is calling me.



On the Amazon the pax vobiscum bite
On the Amazon the epiglottis fight
On the Amazon the hemispheres at night
All slink to where the agnostics drink.
All the hippodromes that lie concealed in mud
Join the metronomes that live in swamp and flood
While the kodachromes come out and drink their blood,
Poor ginks.


Wild velocipedes among the weeds will scare you,
And the menopause with hungry jaws ensnares you.
Frenzied adenoids infest the hills and slopes.
Everyone avoids the deadly stethoscopes -
Oh the Amazon is calling
Yes the Amazon is calling
Oh the Amazon is calling me.