The Monkey Song Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[C]

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