Riki Tiki Tavi - Mongoose Is Gone

Everybody who read the Jungle Book

knows that Riki Tiki Tavi's
a mongoose who kills snakes

When I was a young man

I was led to believe there were organizations
to kill my snakes for me

ie the church

ie the government

ie school

but when I got a little older

I learned I had to kill them myself

Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around
for to kill your snakes no more, my love
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone

From the song, "Riki Tiki Tavi", by Donovan

Images are Diana Rigg as Emma Peel
in the TV show, "The Avengers".