Said the mamba snake to the cockatoo

I can't get no sleep like I used to do

All night long -- the wild boys run through the streets

They're shootin' up the night

I listen to them fight

There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high

Watch the war babies go hungry and cry

There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high

Everybody's fightin' -- nobody knows why

At dawn the refugees are seeking shelter

And from the violence of the night they run in fright --

Helter skelter

From the volatile eruption -- and the wolves of war

Nurse their young -- famine and destruction

There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high

Watch the war babies go hungry and cry

There's no peace in the jungle when the moon is high

Everybody's fightin' -- nobody knows why