[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru,
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I've had sunshine in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu,
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I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yetti in Nepal,
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And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall,
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I've met the King of China and a working Yorkshire miner -
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But I've never met a nice South African!
[Chorus 1]
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No he's never met a nice South African,
C D G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
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'Cause we're a bunch of arrogant bastards,
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Who hate black people!
[Verse 2]
Em Bm
I once got served in Woolies aften less than four week's wait,
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I had lunch with Rowan Atkinson when he paid and wasn't late,
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I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool,
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I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school,
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I've met a normal merman, and a fairly modest German -
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But I've never met a nice South African!
[Chorus 2]
C D G
No he's never met a nice South African,
C D G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
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'Cause we're a bunch of talentless murderers,
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Who smell like baboons.
[Verse 3]
Em Bm
I've had a close encounter of the twenty-second kind,
Em Bm
That's when an alien spaceship disappears up your behind,
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I got directory enquiries after less than forty rings,
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I've even heard a decent song by Paul McCartney's Wings,
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I've seen a flying pig, in a quite convincing wig,
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But I've never met a nice South African!
[Chorus 3]
C D G
No he's never met a nice South African,
C D G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
C D G
'Cause we're a bunch of ignorant loudmouths,
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With no sense of humour.
[Verse 4]
Em Bm
I've met the Loch Ness monster and he looks like Fred Astaire,
Em Bm
At the BBC in London he's the chief commissionaire,
Em Bm
I know a place in Glasgow which is rife with daffodillies,
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I met a man in Katmandu who claimed to have two willies,
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I've had a nice pot noodle, but I've never had a poodle -
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And I've never met a nice South African.
[Chorus 4]
C D G
No he's never met a nice South African,
C D G
And that's not bloody surprising man!
C D G
Because we've never met one either!
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Except for Breyten Breytenbach, and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)
[Coda]
C D G
Yes he's quite a nice South African,
C D G
And he's hardly ever killed anyone,
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And he's not smelly at all.
D G
That's why we put him in prison!