Awww…I LOVE that song.
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I will see your Bismillah and raise you one Mustapha.
Mustapha Mustapha - Allah-i na stolei
Mustapha Mustapha - Achtar es na sholei
Mustapha Mustapha - Mochamut dei ya low eshelei
Mustapha Mustapha - ai ai ai ai ahelei
They used to intro Bohemian Rhapsody with this song in concert in the 70s.
Here’s a rare live version.
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Maybe he just liked riding around on trains and didn’t really care where it went. Maybe he just needed a warm place to sleep for a little while.
It’s also impossible. The Serengeti is over 200 miles away from Kilimanjaro, so while theoretically possible taking into account the elevation of the Serengeti and curvature of the Earth, things like that pesky atmosphere, dust, water vapor, pollution, and other things make it impossible.
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In other words, Kilimanjaro rises exactly like Olympus above the Serengeti – at a great distance from it.
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I have long said the real irony for me is I hate the song, but I actually like the lyrics (even if they are stupid). If nothing else, they are very evocative and memorable.
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Allah hee ee ee
Rather than
Allah hoo oo oo
Is an interesting choice. I assume it’s vaguely remembered childhood stuff.
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My ahoo, my ahee, my aho, my ahaha.
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Love me like a reptile, love me like a reptile
Shock me like an electric eel
Motörhead, Love Me Like a Reptile
What I like here is that Lemmy starts with an unworkable premise that reptile sex is hot, then doubles down with electric eels which aren’t reptiles at all. I guess it’s long, sinuous form he’s into? I kind of wish he’d followed through on the rest of the album with songs about other animals he thinks are hot - Love Me Like a Giraffe, Love Me Like a Ferret - so many great songs lost.
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Me too. Still, it’s kind of dumb.
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That was always the weak point in the whole concept.
I’ll probably try to put them all into a single poll.
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Don’t think I’m trying to tell you what to do! 
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Good direction is good direction.
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I don’t know if I want to be loved like a reptile or a rock. Although I did love my pet rock in the 70s.
My mama loves me, she loves me
She get down on her knees and hug me
Like she loves me like a rock
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Hard to get with reptiles or rocks. How about trucks?
I got love like a truck, a big ol’ truck
It’s our love that I’m towin’
I got love like a truck
Love like a truck
Love Like a Truck, The Bottle Rockets
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How about Roger’s car?
When I’m holding your wheel
All I hear is your gear
With my hand on your grease gun
Told my girl I’d have to forget her
Rather buy me a new carburetor
String back gloves in my automo-love
“… he ain’t heavy, he’s my brother” 
wait i posted a lyric already
Mountains come out of the sky
and they stand there
One mile over we’ll be there
and we’ll see you!
Yes, “Roundabout”
Another question.
If the song is a decidedly nonsense song does it deserve to be here? For example, “I am the Walrus” by The Beatles. Or are we considering only songs that did not strive for ridiculousnes?.
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I’d say no.
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey…
(Not my entry.)
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That was my first thought, too, and I agree they are different. There are so many that they could be the subject contest of their own!
Gliddy glub gloopy, nibby nabby noopy la, la, la, lo, lo Sabba sibby sabba, nooby abba nabba, le, le, lo, lo
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