Don't Go Near The Eskimos (Rerecorded)

Oop shoop moogi mushy doggy, oh

Oop shoop moogi ay

Means, son, don't go near the Eskimos

Please do what I say

My papa was working

For the weather station

A little bit North of Nome

And I grew up in that frozen country

Where the nights are six months long

I used to play like I was an Eskimo

I put whale oil on my hair

And every night I would beg my folks

Let me sleep in the frigid air

Oop shoop moogi mushy doggy, oh

Oop shoop moogi ay

Means, son, don't go near the Eskimos

Please do what I say

I was seventeen, and my voice was changing

But the girls didn't thrill me none

'Cause I longed to go see an Eskimo

On the banks of the old Yukon

One night I slipped from my daddy's house

A little bit north of Nome

I knew that I could get back by morning

'Cause the nights are six months long

Oop shoop moogi mushy doggy, oh

Oop shoop moogi ay

Means, son, don't go near the Eskimos

Please do what I say

And there she was

Sitting on a chunk of ice

Eating a frozen fish

And dipping her friskies

In whale blubbe

And I said, Ooga shooga mooshka

Which means the love in my heart

Is a burning

And she said, "Ooga mooshka nooshka"

And that means, back up, buddy

You're melting the ice

I went back home, and I told my daddy

About this maiden fair

And how I felt I'd love to melt

Them icicles in her hair

Dad's trembling lips turned purple

And his breath began to freeze

It was then he told me

I could never rub noses

With pretty little Um Shog Nee

He said, Son, when you were born

Well, the Eskimo and the white man

Were having a lot of wild parties together

And an Eskimo named Pie Eye