Source: Horntip Collection - Half-Mind Hymnal 2011

Lyrics

I asked my lady what should I do, To make her happy, not make her blue, She said, “The only thing I want from you, Is a little bitty of the big bamboo.”

CHORUS: She wanted the big bamboo, bamboo, Eye eye-eye eye-eye-eye, Working for the Yankee dollar.

So I gave her a coconut, She said, “I like him, he’s okay, But there’s just one thing that worries me, What good are the nuts without the tree?”

So I sold my lady a banana plant, She said, “I like him, he’s elegant, We should not let him go to waste, But he’s much too soft to suit my taste.”

So I bought my lady a sugar cane, The fruit of fruits, I did explain, But she was tired of him very quick, She said, “I’d rather get my lips around your dip stick.”

So I gave my honey a rambutan, Soft and prickly, how the juices ran, She said, “I’ve seen a fruit like this before, But it had a long stalk and two pips in the core.”

She met a chinaman, Him Hung Low, They got married, went to Mexico, But she divorced him very quick, She said, “I want bamboo, not chopstick.”