The Monkey Song chords by
Hoagy Carmichael

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Key: Db major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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This is a story about a

monkey and a king,

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King Rebop, and his dream down

Dbsus4

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in the jungle.

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He dreams about a flower,

dreams about a bird, not that bird,

ah, that's a prettier bird.

He dreams about a monkey,

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he dreams this mon key

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can play the drums,

seems the king is broke,

He needs dough,

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and there's a missionary.

Well, the monkey heard squeaking

down in Wooloo,

And he got fit,

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he got fit by the beat of it,

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He hopped upon a hippo's back,

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with a grin he went into his dance.

Singin' sookity yackety back,

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a kangaroo pop said,

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You stopped,

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you ain't exactly on the back beat,

Look at my feet,

and then he shuffled up a rhythm,

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Got the monkey all with him in a minute,

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They were ballin' the jack and the sand.

So the monkey made

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a coconut tom -tom,

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found an old drum that

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belonged to the voodoos

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By the middle of the week every nat ive was speak

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ing about the monkey and his medicine band

He beat the licks with his sticks

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to a record by Bix,

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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

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a Bible and canary

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came riding on a donkey

through the jungle

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King Reebok's a -wool

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ing to see it,

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the bigger hit and make a buck on it

But the monk the king kept a

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-ravelin' about

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Didn't know nothin' at all

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It was just another monk a -k ing

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Reap up, then woke up,

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found out he'd been dreamin'

And upset, caught the little missionary

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Cdim

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Read the Bible in Canary City King,

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Abm

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must have been some body you wed

So long, boy

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Dbsus4
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Ab
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Db
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Dbsus4
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