The Monkey Song chords by Hoagy Carmichael
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
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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 monkey
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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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G
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By the middle of the week every native 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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Gm
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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Dm
Read the Bible in Canary City King,
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Gm
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must have been somebody you wed
So long, boy
The Monkey Song
Hoagy Carmichael
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