Lyrics for "once on a cannibal island" or "I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you" as I can remember then from my mother's lullaby renditions


Once on a cannibal isle there dwelt a dark eyed maid
She lived all alone in a little wooden hut in the palm tree shade
And on that island she reigned as queen
One day a stranger appeared on the scene
He said "Don't waste your time out in this dreadful clime, but come with me my little island maid to my home across the sea."
He turned very red, when she turned up her nose and said

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I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you
I've got one lover and I don't want two
When he comes back there is no knowing
And when he comes back you'd better be a-going
'Cause I wouldn't leave my little wooden hut for you.

Just then some cannibals came is sight with swords and spears
Looking for something for supper that night, giving dreadful lears
And she said "Stranger, you'd better go. That chief in war paint, you see is my bow."

?????? missing verse from my mother's memory

But jumped into his little sailing boat that was waiting there
He never came back again, just to hear that maid exclaim

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