Padauk - Tones

Oh won’t you let me introduce you to padauk?

Hard like rock, takes a knock, color shifts with time

Starts out looking sun tan, turns orange, purple and black

It’s come the way from Africa padauk

Hum, yo, do, do, do, da, da

Characteristic colors of Africa padauk

All day long I could sing my song

All day long they’re dancing

On African wood it’s called padauk

The dancing floor in the mansion house is padauk shining so brightly

Yeah, the dancing floor in the mansion house is padauk

It’s finished up nicely

Oh, I hope when we cut them down that we put another tree in the ground

'Cause it takes a hundred years to grow padauk

Ooh, um

Aah

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Chop a down down a bom bom away, um, um, um

All I know about a dancing floor of padauk

It costs a lot of jingles

Should have left the wood on a tree somewhere padauk

The governor’s floor is wearing well

Padauk beneath its urethene shell

It’s a pretty wood, but costs too much for me

The dancing floor in the mansion house is padauk

You can really stomp your heels to it

All the way from Africa padauk

Oh, I hope when we cut them down, we put another tree in there

It takes a hundred years to grow a tree

Yes it do