| Once upon a time there was a little boy, who played a ukulele
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| He’d go around town clink, clunk, CLONK!
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| The grown-ups would say: Take that thing out of here!
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| Not only that. |
| The boy’s father would get in trouble, too
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| His father was a magician and he had a magic wand. |
| He could go Zooop!
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| With it, and make things disappear
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| But he played too many tricks on people
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| He’d come up to someone just about to drink a nice glass of something
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| Zoop! |
| The glass would disappear
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| He’d come up to someone doing some work—maybe sawing off a log of
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| Wood: zzt, zzt, zzt. |
| Up comes the father with his magic wand: Zoop! |
| And
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| The saw would disappear
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| He would come up to someone just about to sit down after a hard day’s
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| Work, and zoop! |
| No chair
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| People got tired of this. |
| They said to the father:
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| Hey you get out of here too. |
| Take your magic wand and your practical
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| Jokes and you and your son, just git!"
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| They ostracized them. |
| That means, they
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| Made 'em live on the edge of town
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| Now, in this town, they used to tell stories
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| The old people used to tell stories about the giants that lived in the old
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| Days!
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| They used to tell a story about a giant called Abiyoyo
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| They said he was as tall as a tree, and he could eat people up
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| Of course, nobody believed it; |
| but they told these stories anyway
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| But one day, one day, the sun rose red over the hill
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| And the first people that got up and looked out of their window
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| They saw a great big shadow in front of the sun. |
| And they could feel
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| The whole ground shake (Stomp, stomp.)
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| Women screamed. |
| Strong men fainted. |
| They said: «Run for your lives!
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| Abiyoyo’s coming!»
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| Down through the fields he came. |
| He came to the sheep pasture and
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| Grabs a whole sheep. |
| Yeowp! |
| He eats it in one bite. |
| He comes to the cow
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| Pasture, grabs a whole cow and Yuhk! |
| Gone
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| People yelled: «Grab your most precious possessions and run!»
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| Just then the boy and his father were waking up. |
| They’d been up late the
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| Night before at a party. |
| The boy rubbed his eyes and said:
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| «Hey, pa, what’s coming over the fields»
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| The father said: «Oh, son. |
| That’s Abiyoyo
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| Oh, if only I could get him to lie down, I could make him disappear."
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| The boy said, «Come with me father.» |
| He grabbed his father by the hand
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| And the father grabbed the magic wand, and the boy grabbed his ukulele
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| And over the fields they went, right up to where Abiyoyo was
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| People screamed «Don't go near him! |
| He’ll eat you alive!»
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| There was Abiyoyo
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| He had long fingernails, ‘cause he never cut 'em
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| He had slobbery teeth 'cause he never brushed them
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| He had stinking feet, cause he never washed them
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| He was raising up his claws and just then the boy whipped out his
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| Ukulele
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| Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
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| Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo
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| Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo
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| Well, the giant had never heard a song about himself before, and a
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| Foolish grin spread across his face. |
| And the giant started to dance
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| ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO
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| The boy went faster
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| ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO, ABIYOYO
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| ABIYOYO, YO YOYO, YO YOYO ABIYOYO, YO YOYO…
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| And the giant was dancing faster, and faster he got out of breath and
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| He staggered. |
| He fell down flat on the ground
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| Zoop, zoop! |
| Went the father with his magic wand, and Abiyoyo disappeared
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| People streamed out of their houses, and they ran across the fields
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| They said: «Why, he’s gone, he’s disappeared!»
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| They said: «Come back to town. |
| And sure, bring your ukulele; |
| we don’t
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| Care.» |
| And they all sang:
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| Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo, Abiyoyo
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| Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo, Abiyoyo, yo yoyo yo yoyo |