Dalai Lama - Alex Chilton

Up in Tibet high in the Himalayas

There lives a cat called the Dalai Lama

In a palace called the Potala

A thousand rooms in a thousand colors

She had a far-out decorator

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Each room is different and filled with relics

That will disorient you like psychedelics

Thirty thousand monks at his direction

Practicing things like astral projection

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Yeah, you know the Dalai Lama gets those monks together

And leads them singing every Wednesday at the prayer meeting

That’s how he maintains the devotion of his followers

You know, it kinda goes

A-one, a-two, a-one, two, three…

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama, baby

He’s the Dalai Lama

They pick a two year old and get him from his mama

And take him to the palace to be the Dalai Lama

I hear he never swats a mosquito

That’s cause he’s a follower of Buddha

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Dalai, Dalai Lama

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

He’s the Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama, baby

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Oh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Dalai Lama

He’s the Dalai Lama, baby

He’s the Dalai Lama