A popular song from 1909.
Words by E. Ray Goetz.
Music by Melville J. Gideon.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Out in the light of a bright tropic night
In a cocoanut tree saw a bashful chimpanzee
This pretty miss, for the bliss of a kiss
she was silently longing, in love’s sweet ecstasy
Then through the trees with a graceful ease
There came to spoon a big Baboon
Who pleaded with this monkey miss
To be his fiancee
With blushes red to her he said
“If you will roam back to my home
and be my wife, then a happy life
You will live the live long day”
CHORUS
Bambooland, Bambooland
If you’re for her and she’s for you
That’s the place to bill and coo
Bambooland, Bambooland
In BimBoo-Bamboo, babe you’ll understand
It’s simply grand in Bambooland
2. This monkey maid was afraid if she strayed
With her love, it would upset her ‘rang-ou-tang Papa
If he’d return he’d be stern if he’d learn
She’d eloped and he’d search
Till he found her, near and far
But once again his sweet refrain
This Baboon bold to her he told
And said, “Come dear” you needn’t fear
So please don’t answer “no”
Her shyness fled and then she said
“With loving glance, I’ll take a chance
When I hear that song tho’ I know it’s wrong
To your home I long to go”