A popular song from 1913.
Words by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie.
Music by Theodore F. Morse.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Down in Monkeyville, as monkeys will
They’ve copied old Broadway’s cabarets
Monkeys congregate each night
At eight, it’s simply great
There’s a Jungletown Quartette
Of big baboons, four baboons
And when they begin to act
Like crazy loons, singing tunes
Every monkey doodle goes right off his noodle
Jumping helter-skelter all around
Chorus:
Down in Monkeyville, talk of vaudeville
All the chimpanzees, there in two and threes
Hanging from the trees
Are singing monkey melodies
And then the chief Gorill’ leads the band until
All the cute little monkeys are bobbin’ up and down
Bobbin’ up and down
Monkey-shining down in Monkeyville
2. One orangutang who taught the gang
To do the turkey trot
He was shot by a monkey cop
Who came to stop this naughty hop
Monkey husbands left their wives
To take a chance with this dance
Monkey maiden seem to put them
In a trance with one glance
One wise monkey feller had a big Rathskeller
Doing business on a palm tree branch