Half-man, half-tiger is captured in Polynesia and taken to New York City. He escapes and finds himself lost and friendless, with just his guitar as a companion. But something seems familiar about those Tiki statues at Otto's Shrunken Head on 14th Street. So he goes in and performs his songs.
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Here are the lyrics:
Live It Up Before You're Dead
Creepy Tiki faces they're guarding Otto's shrunken head
Take me - you've got to live it up before you're dead
I was born half-tiger and half-man
A polynesian island in the middle of the ocean was my home
One day explorers cam ashore, trapped me in a net to ship me
far across the ocean all alone
They let me keep this old guitar, through my incarceration
I kept practicing and playing days and nights
Fate intervenes and set me free, ship went down on rocks
and I swam toward those blazing city lights
Creepy Tiki faces they're guarding Otto's shrunken head
Take me - you've got to live it up before you're dead
I walked the streets for days on end, looking for a friendly face
but everybody laughed at me and stared
Stopped in my tracks on 14th Street, something seemed familiar
about those silent Tiki faces frowning there
I went inside it was like home - felt like I was
grooving on my old Polynesian island once again.
Creepy Tiki faces they're guarding Otto's shrunken head
Take me - you've got to live it up before you're dead