Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo (Official Music Video)

Опубликовано 20 марта 2026, 14:00

You’re watching the official music video for Guadalcanal Diary - “Watusi Rodeo.” This jangly, upbeat alternative rock track was released in 1984 from their debut album Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man, released by DB Records. Mixing chiming guitars, Southern-tinged college rock, and offbeat storytelling, the song captures the band’s early charm and DIY spirit while hinting at the melodic intelligence that would define their later work.

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Lyrics
Come along with me to the Congo land
Got a zebra by the tail and a python in my hand
Once my home was a Texas plain
But now I swing a lasso on an alien terrain

Hottentots and pygmies know where to go
Everybody's heading for the Watusi rodeo

Cowboys are putting up a big fence around
A sacred elephant burial ground
Native women stomping up a flurry in the mud
Villagers are looking for some cowboy blood (Blood!)

I guess they didn't like them hats we made 'em wear
They don't look right on the native hair
Don't they know that it's all for show
All for showing at the Watusi rodeo

Monkeys in the trees just thumbing their nose
At the bullriders riding on rhinos
Warriors standing with spears in their hands
Wondering what's next from the crazy white man

Natives are restless underneath Stetsons
What are these cowboys doing in the Congo?
Look like cows but they're water buffaloes
Ropin' and a riding in the Watusi rodeo
Oh they look like cows but they're water buffaloes
Everybody's heading for the Watusi rodeo

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