Key: D minor
Verse 1
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Down in the green hay
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Where monkey and bear
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usually lay (lay)
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They woke from a stable- boy's cry
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Said someone come quick
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The horses got loose,
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got grass- sick
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They'll founder, fain, they'll die
Verse 2
and the gelding grey?
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It is, stay by the gate you are given
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And had the overfed dead but listened
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To that high- fence, horse- sense, wisdom
Verse 3
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But Did you hear that, Bear? said
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Monkey, we'll get out of here,
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fair and square
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They left the gate open wide
Verse 4
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So, my bride,
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here is my hand Where is your paw?
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Try and understand my plan, Ursula
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Full of love that's just and earnest
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Allegiance to a life of service
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And no longer answer to that heartless
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The charlatan, with artless hustling
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But Ursula, we've got to eat something
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All double- bolted and tightfisted
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A- steeped in milk and honey
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Will you keep your fancy clothes on,
for me?
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My
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love, I swear by the air I breathe
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Sooner or later, you'll bare your teeth
Verse 6
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But for now, just dance, darling
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C'mon, will you dance, my darling?
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Darling, there's a place for us
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Can we go, before I turn to dust?
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Oh, my darling there's a place for us
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Verse 7
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Oh darling, c'mon will you
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Though the hills are groaning with excess
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Like a table ceaselessly being set
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Oh my darling,
Interlude 1
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Verse 8
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They trooped past the guards
Past the coops,
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and the fields
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And the farmyards, all night till finally
Verse 9
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The space they gained grew
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much farther than
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The stone that Bear threw
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To mark where they'd stop for tea
Verse 10
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which lies a little past the pasture
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whistling they rise and clap
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And their ap plause caws the kettle black
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And we can't have none of that
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Move along, Bear, there,
Verse 11
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Though cast in plaster
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Our Ursula's heart beat faster
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Than monkey's ever will
Verse 12
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But still, they had got to
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pay the bills
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Hadn't they? That is what
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So, with the courage of a clown,
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Or a kite, jerking tight at its tether
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down and leather
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The organ would grind dregs of song
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and recoiling in terror
Verse 13
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Sing, Dance, darling
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C'mon, will you dance, my darling?
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Oh darling, there's a place for us
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Can we go, before I turn to dust?
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Oh my darling there's
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Verse 14
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Oh darling, c'mon, will you dance,
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Where you'll ever- after eat your fill
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Oh my darling dear mine,
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if you dance
Dance darling,
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and I'll love you still
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Verse 15
Deep in the night,
shone a weak and miserly light
Where the monkey shouldered
his lamp
Someone had told him the
Bear'd been wandering
a fair piece away
From where they were camped
Someone had told him the
bear'd been sneaking away
To the seaside caverns, to bathe
And the thought troubled the monkey
For he was afraid of spelunking
Down in those caves,
also afraid what the
Village people would say if they
saw the bear in that state
Lolling and splashing obscenely
Well, it seemed irrational, really
Washing that face,
washing that matted and flea- bit pelt
In some sea- spit- shine old kelp
dripping with brine
But monkey just laughed,
and he muttered
When she comes back,
Ursula will be bursting with pride
Till I jump up saying,
You've been rolling in muck
Saying, You smell of garbage and grime
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Far out, by now, Bear ploughed
'Cause she would not drown
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Up and fell down, in the water,
like knobby garters
Then the outside- arms of the bear
Fell off, as easy as if sloughed
from boiled tomatoes
Lowered in a genteel curtsy
diluvian shoulders
And, with a sigh she allowed the
burden of belly to drop
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Like an apron full of boulders
coat to the light
Where it's worn translucent in places
You'd see spots where
Almost every night of the year
Bear had been mending,
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suspending that baseness
through the water
Bagging, with a life's-
worth of hunger
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Limitless minnows
balletic and glacial
Of bear's insatiable shadow
Verse 21
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When Bear left Bear
Verse 22
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When bear stepped clear of bear
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Interlude 2
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Verse 23
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later you'll bury
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