A 1911 popular song.
Words by Edward Madden.
Music by Percy Wenrich.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- 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 jubilee
Chorus
There’ll be a hot time
Way down in monkey town
Oh, what a jungle honeymoon
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
- Ape’s with lovely shapes, who hang like grapes
From every 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
Sung here by Vancha March: