Sheet Music, 1910-1919
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0380
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
Relational Format
music score
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Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
Oh the moon a-glow, shines down below, On Monkey town. Yells and cocoanut shells like wedding bells Ring up and down. Cheerful chattering, apes are scattering, fancy flattering spoons, Baboons bubbling dancing doubling tender troubling croons. Jungles jingling, monkeys mingling, teasing tingling tunes. From tree to tree a jungle jubliee
Chorus
There'll be a hot time Way down in monkey town, Oh, what a jungle hooneymoon. When monkey shine, meets monkey mine, They'll go swinging, gaily singing, joy bells ringing all monkey land will dance to that jungle band, Baboons keep bobbing up and down. When you see them climb the fam'ly tree, There'll be a hot time in Monkey town. There'll be a hot time Way down in monkey town, Oh, what a jungle hooneymoon. When monkey shine, meets monkey mine, They'll go swinging, gaily singing, joy bells ringing all monkey land will dance to that jungle band, Baboons keep bobbing up and down. When you see them climb the fam'ly tree, There'll be a hot time in Monkey town.
Second verse
Ape's with lovely shapes, who hang like grapes, From evry tree, Pine for just a sign from monkey shine. But he won't see. Gaily tittering, onward flittering, with a glittering eye, Tossing tumbling, stooping stumbling with a mumbling sigh. Madly muddling, hugging, huddling coyly cuddling shy, These two will woo, like merry monkeys do.
(Chorus)
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