[Verso 1]
 
E                  A           E 
Idi Amin should be hung by his nose 
   E                       B7      E 
In front of his palace without any clothes 
E                            A             E 
Tied up with barbed wire and beat up with sticks 
   E                        B7             E 
Relieved of his insides and filled up with bricks 


[Verso 2]
 
   E                          A             E 
He calls on his neighbors for three meals a day 
   E                             B7           E 
He don't save his scraps he just throws them away 
E                              A              E 
Hangs them and shoots them and tells God they died 
   E                      B7          E 
He likes them toasted and pickled and fried 


[Verso 3]
 
   E               A           E 
Kampala, Uganda on Saturday night 
E                     B7        E 
Idi Amin just stepped out for a bite 
    E                          A          E 
The waitress she ask him, "Can I help you please?" 
E                    B7           E 
Platter of elbows, a bowl full of knees 


[Verso 4]
 
E                     A        E 
He has got medals all over his chest 
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He didn't win them he stole them I guess 
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Ears in his pockets and eyes in his stew 
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Don't try to stop him 'cause he might eat you (chomp chomp, chomp chomp) 


[Verso 5]
 
E                       A      E 
Newspapers say he's got social disease 
   E                           B7      E 
He screams in the bathroom whenever he pees 
    E                            A        E 
His sons and his daughters got syphilitic brains 
     E                        B7       E 
They don't even plug in their electric trains (poor kids) 


[Verso 6]
 
E                 A        E 
Idi Amin just got married again 
     E                           B7     E 
Instead of champagne they served penicillin 
E                        A            E 
Rings on his fingers and sores on his toes 
    E                        B7      E 
His shankers go with him wherever he goes 


[Verso 7]
 
E                  A            E 
Even his doggy has got syphilis too 
   E                       B7         E 
If you were his doggy he'd give it to you 
    E                          A            E 
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn 
E                       B7              E 
He eats their babies as soon as they're born 


[Verso 8]

E                  A           E 
Idi Amin should be hung by his balls 
E                   B7            E 
Cut into pieces and tucked to the walls 
   E                     A          E 
So all of his horses and all of his men 
      E               B7       E 
Could never put Idi together again 
      E               B7       E 
Could never put Idi together again 
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