Don't Tell Your Monkey Man 1919

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 26 May 2009
2009

Down in the jungles far away
two monks were talking one day
it surely was a funny sight
to see the tricks that they would play
one monkey he was making love
and trying all the time,
just to steal the heart
of some one's little baby mine
and when they'd meet each day,
to her he'd always say:

Ev'rything I tell you
don't run and tell your monkey man
when I want to love you,
don't run and tell your monkey man.
You know I'm wild about you
and I love you with a heart that's true
so won't you let me steal you babe
'cause you're such a pretty monkey
and my heart beats true for you,
ev'ry night we'll spoon, dear,
underneath the bamboo tree.
While the moon is shining down so grand
in monkey land.
In my arms I'll hold you, dear,
and then I'll never have to fear
that ev'rything I tell you,
you'll run and tell your monkey man.

Ev'rything I tell you
don't run and tell your monkey man
when I want to love you,
don't run and tell your monkey man.
You know I'm wild about you
and I love you with a heart that's true
so won't you let me steal you babe
'cause you're such a pretty monkey
and my heart beats true for you,
ev'ry night we'll spoon, dear,
underneath the bamboo tree.
While the moon is shining down so grand
in monkey land.
In my arms I'll hold you, dear,
and then I'll never have to fear
that ev'rything I tell you,
you'll run and tell your monkey man.

Each night he'd tell her of his love
he said you're breaking my heart,
he told her he would treat her kind
and vowed from her he'd never part,
he promised her a honeymoon
the best in jungle land,
if she'd only let him steal her
from her monkey man,
and as she'd cuddle near,
he'd whisper in her ear:

Ev'rything I tell you
don't run and tell your monkey man
when I want to love you,
don't run and tell your monkey man.
You know I'm wild about you
and I love you with a heart that's true
so won't you let me steal you babe
'cause you're such a pretty monkey
and my heart beats true for you,
ev'ry night we'll spoon, dear,
underneath the bamboo tree.
While the moon is shining down so grand
in monkey land.
In my arms I'll hold you, dear,
and then I'll never have to fear
that ev'rything I tell you,
you'll run and tell your monkey man.

Ev'rything I tell you
don't run and tell your monkey man
when I want to love you,
don't run and tell your monkey man.
You know I'm wild about you
and I love you with a heart that's true
so won't you let me steal you babe
'cause you're such a pretty monkey
and my heart beats true for you,
ev'ry night we'll spoon, dear,
underneath the bamboo tree.
While the moon is shining down so grand
in monkey land.
In my arms I'll hold you, dear,
and then I'll never have to fear
that ev'rything I tell you,
you'll run and tell your monkey man.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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Don't Tell Your Monkey Man 1919
by Lukie Johnson
© 1919 by Williams & Piron Mus.Pub. - New Orleans
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 26 May 2009 at 15.01
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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