[verse] Deep in the Congo, Hear the bongos, Beating a steady thunder, Deep in the trees, Beasts no one sees, Guarding a dead King's Plunder, Hid in a mountain, There's no countin' How many gemstones shine, But all are dead, Who dared to tread, Into Solomon's Mines, [chorus] Countless souls were swallowed in, The mines of Old King Solomon, Kept secret by his guard's descendants damned, Unnatural, or so they say, Corrupted by some wizard's way, Mythic sentries of half-ape, half-man, And even if the place you find, There's no escape, From Solomon's Mines, [verse] Tribes lived in fear, Folk disappeared, In the shadow of the Mountain, Warriors set out, They heard their shouts, Blood flowed down like a fountain, The Chiefs' rewards, All but ignored, To save them from their doom, 'Til came a man, From foreign lands, The Hunter named Muldoon [chorus] Countless souls were swallowed in, The mines of Old King Solomon, But Muldoon's only solace now, to kill, So with his trusty Eleanor, And shotguns, pistols, blades and more, He'll aid the tribe, cares not if his blood's spilled, Only vengeance fills his mind, There's no escape, From Solomon's Mines, [bridge] With packhorse on his trek, He snaked up paths well hidden, He felt the eyes upon him all along, Then came upon the wreck, Warriors bodies stacked like midden, There set up camp while humming his wife's song, They came for him at night... Dark 'til they tripped the dynamite... [verse] Rapid the rattling, Of his Gatling, Cutting through mad Gorillas, Burning their hair, As in the air, Rained down his cocktails killer, With deadly force, They tore his horse, From limb to limb asunder, Stood Face to face, With deadly apes, They screamed as his pistols thundered, [chorus] Still the creatures followed him, Into the Mines of Solomon, His blasts reflecting lovely off the stones, He slew the ape-men by the score, Now all he's left is Eleanor, They're on him as his bullets meet the bone, One last silver-back's eyes shine, There's no escape, From Solomon's Mines [outro verse] Bleeding and maimed, He keeps his aim, On their chief as he lumbers, Circling round, On higher ground, Then Eleanor's last thunder, His shot is true, But doesn't do, A thing, the Beast's upon him, He pulls the pin, For both of them, The mine collapses on him, [outro chorus] His soul now sings a hollow hymn, Gone are the mines of Solomon, As corpses guard the hoard of precious stones, Clutched by his side, is Eleanor, She sleeps with him forever more, And so you know he'll never be alone... That suits Muldoon just fine, There's no escape, From Solomon's Mines
