[Dixielandjazz] Jungle Danger

[Jerry Gordon]

An anthropologist was assigned to Borneo, where
he found a guide with a canoe to take him up the
river to the remote site he where he would make
his collections. At noon on the second day of travel
up the river they began to hear drums.

"What are those drums?" asked the anthropologist,
knowing he was in cannibal country.

The guide turned to him and said "No worry. Drums
OK, but very bad when they stop."

They both went ghostly pale when the drums
suddenly stopped. The guide crouched in the
belly of the canoe and covered his ears.

"Do as I do! Very important!""intoned the guide
with great urgency.

"Why? What does this mean?" asked the panicked
anthropologist.

"Drums stop! Next come guitar solo!"