That Monkey Tune 1911 Emma Carus

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 11 Aug 2005

Down in a sunny jungle town
where the monkeys run around
lived a crazy little monkey
who loved to sing.
A chimpanzee in a cocoanutty tree
heard his nutty melody,
she fell in love with his singing,
from the branches a clinging,
she'd pitch her voice in a monkey key
and yell with all her might!

Sing that monkey tune
you monkey loon
don't dare to stop,
hurry up, hurry up,
I want to hear that strain so queer
because I'm crazy
about that monkey tune.

Sing that monkey tune
you monkey loon
don't dare to stop,
hurry up, hurry up,
I want to hear that strain so queer
because I'm crazy
about that monkey tune.

She kept a shouting from the tree,
for his nutty melody
till the crazy little monkey looked up
and said: "I want to spoon
'neath the monkey honey moon,
to the nutty wedding tune, soon,"
Mister and Misses Monkey,
pitched their voices in one key,
and now they can't get a wink of sleep,
the baby yells all night.

Sing that monkey tune
you monkey loon
don't dare to stop,
hurry up, hurry up,
I want to hear that strain so queer
because I'm crazy
about that monkey tune.

Sing that monkey tune
you monkey loon
don't dare to stop,
hurry up, hurry up,
I want to hear that strain so queer
because I'm crazy
about that monkey tune.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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That Monkey Tune 1911
Words and Music By Irving Berlin
Performer: Successfully Introduced By Emma Carus
© 1911 by Ted Snyder Co., 112 West 38th St., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 11 August 2005 at 18.35
in association with Doug Grierson
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