Alice Cooper - Ubangi Stomp Lyrics

Sounds great.
Alice Cooper should have become a rockabilly singer.

The book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe is a piece of post colonial literature which talks of the customs in Africa from the African perspective. According to the book, the "Ubangi" Cooper refers to in the song is a superstition The Ibo people had concerning babies. If babies are still born or deformed at birth, they are mutilated with farm tools or by stomping on them. This is done to deter the bad sprits which dwelled in their children from returning in their next child.

Done well

Elvis Presley much?

With the chiefs daughter Mae

I don't think Mae is a native African name.

"Ubangi Stomp"

Well, I rocked over Italy and I rocked over Spain.
I rocked in Memphis;
it was all the same
till I rocked to Africa.
I rolled off the ship.
I seem them natives doin' an odd looking skip.
I parted the weeds
and I looked over the swamp,
and I seen them cats doin' the Ubangi Stomp.
Ubangi Stomp is a rock and roll.
It beats anything that's ever been told.
Ubangi Stomp, Ubangi style;
when it kicks,
it drives a cool cat wild.
Well I looked up the chief;
he invited me in.
He said, "A heap big jam session's 'bout to begin."
I grabbed up a tom and I picked up the beat.
That crazy thing sent
shivers to my feet.
I rocked and I rolled
and I skipped with a smile.
I did the Ubangi Stomp with a Ubangi style.
Well, we rocked all night and part of the day.
Had a good, rock-in' time
with the chief's daughter Mae.
I'm makin' good time and I'm gettin' in the know when the captain said, "Son, we've gotta go." I said, "That's all right.
You go right ahead.
I'm gonna Ubangi Stomp till I roll over dead."
Ubangi Stomp is a rock and roll.
It beats anything that's ever been told.
Ubangi Stomp, Ubangi style;
when it kicks,
it drives a cool cat wild.
Ubangi Stomp, thank you.

this sorta has a 50s era rock and roll vibe

It's a cover. The original was from the 50's on Sun records.

the original is written and sung by Warren Smith, the song itself became quite well known by the Stray Cats in the 80s :)

Have you heard him do these songs called Going To The River and Ain't That Just Like A Woman? .. . THEY'RE the SAME STYLE basically.

Just heard an old Jerry Lee Lewis version of it. I had never heard any other version except Alice's till this morning.