Here in Bolton, Lancashire, UK, I learned it in the Cub Scouts (late 1950s) as:


D D  D  R  M  M   R  R   M  M
Ally-gally-zimba, zimba, zimba

D D  D  R  M  M   R  R   D
Ally-gally-zimba, zimba, zee

D D  D  R  M  M   R  R   M  M
Ally-gally-zimba, zimba, zimba

D D  D  R  M  M   R  R   D
Ally-gally-zimba, zimba, zee

d     L  S        M   F R  M   S
Hold 'em down.... you Zulu warriors

d     L  S        M   F R  D       D       D       D
Hold 'em down.... you Zulu chiefs, chiefs, chiefs, chiefs...


...and 'chiefs' would be repeated (on Doh) by one group as another group sang the song, then they would continue repeating 'chiefs'... and it carried on until everyone was fed up of it!!

The spellings are merely to indicate how we pronounced the words.

Here's the nearest I could get to the tune in my head with ABC:

X: 1

T:Alley Galley Zimba
M:2/4
L:1/8
Q:120
K:D
D/2D/2D/2E/2FF| EEFF|
D/2D/2D/2E/2FF| |1 ! EE D2:||
2 M:3/4 E/2E/2 D /2d/2B/2||M:4/4 (A2 A/2)F/2G/2E/2|F/2 (A3/2 A)
d/2B/2|(A2 A/2)F/2G/2E/2| D D D D||

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