Slavný skotský písničkář (voc, g, harm), vlast. jm. Donovan Philip Leitch. Narozen v Glasgowě v r. 1946. Ovlivněn Woody Guthriem, B. Dylanem a skotskými lidovými baladami. Textovými náměty se dotýká života člověka a humanity v nejširším smyslu...

Píseň: Riki Tiki Tavi

Interpret:
Donovan
Album:
Open Road
Better get into what you gotta get into
Better get into it now, no slacking please
United Nations ain't really united
And the organisations ain't really organised


Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill 
your snakes no more my love
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone


Everybody who read the Jungle Book knows that 
Riki tiki tavi's a mongoose who kills snakes
Well, when I was a young man 
I was led to believe there were organisations
to kill my snakes for me
ie the church ie the government ie the school
but when I got a little older learned 
I had to kill them myself


I said: Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Won't be coming around for to kill 
your snakes no more my love
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone


People walk around they don't know 
what they're doing
They bin lost so long they don't know 
what they've been looking for
Well, I know what I'm a looking for
 but I just can't find it
I guess I gotta look inside of myself some more


oh oh oh inside of myself some more
oh oh oh inside of myself some more


Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone
Riki tiki tavi mongoose is gone


I saw you today on a number twelve bus 
you were going my way
my way