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The Monkey Song chords by 
Hoagy Carmichael
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Intro 1
C
Verse 1
C
This is a story about a
monkey and a king,
Bb
King Rebop, and his dream down
Csus4
C
Bb
in the jungle.
C
He dreams about a flower,
dreams about a bird, not that bird,
ah, that's a prettier bird.
He dreams about a monkey,
F
he dreams this monkey
C
can play the drums,
seems the king is broke,
He needs dough,
F
G
F
C
F
C
and there's a missionary.
Well, the monkey heard squeaking
down in Wooloo,
And he got fit,
F
he got fit by the beat of it,
C
He hopped upon a hippo's back,
F
with a grin he went into his dance.
Singin' sookity yackety back,
C
a kangaroo pop said,
G
You stopped,
C
F
you ain't exactly on the back beat,
Look at my feet,
and then he shuffled up a rhythm,
Bdim
G
F
Got the monkey all with him in a minute,
G
C
F
They were ballin' the jack and the sand.
So the monkey made
C
a coconut tom -tom,
F
C
found an old drum that
F
belonged to the voodoos
G
F
G
F
By the middle of the week every native was speak
C
F
ing about the monkey and his medicine band
He beat the licks with his sticks
C
to a record by Bix,
F
C
F
till his rhythm was the talk of all the Congo
He had a gadoo play the kazoo,
and the junk men rounded out the combo
One day a missionary with
Bb
C
a Bible and canary
F
came riding on a donkey
through the jungle
D
Gm
King Reebok's a -wool
C
ing to see it,
F
the bigger hit and make a buck on it
But the monk the king kept a
C
-ravelin' about
F
Didn't know nothin' at all
F
It was just another monk a -k ing
C
Reap up, then woke up,
F
found out he'd been dreamin'
And upset, caught the little missionary
G
Bdim
G
F
Dm
Read the Bible in Canary City King,
F
Gm
C
F
must have been somebody you wed
So long, boy
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