Of the jungle
 Lies a body
 Cold and dead
 For the venom
 Of the cobra
 Has gone in
 The body dead
 Rock and hill
 A little girl
 As she cries
 All around
 For the snake
 Has killed the father
 Tell me where it
 Can be found
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 Then all the people
 Sound the drums
 Call the mongoose
 From his lair
 Through the jungle
 He flies alone
 To a tunnel
 On a hill
 In the dark
 The cobra waits
 And his eyes
 Glow red
 Like a flash
 Comes the mongoose
 For the battle
 Head to head
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 Said the mongoose
 To the cobra
 "See that panther
 In that tree"
 As the cobra
 Turned its head
 Mongoose caught it
 In his teeth
 Then the people
 Started singing
 For the snake
 Killed them all
 Cobra eggs
 Now are hatching
 Baby cobras
 Back for more!
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE! MONGOOSE!
 (fade...finally!