A monkey ditty from 1908
Words by Edward Madden
Music by Theodore Morse
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down in Jungle Town
The moon shone down without a frown
Soon a shy baboon
Came out to spoon beneath the moon
Monkey Doodle wagged his noodle
He was Jungle King
She felt flattered when he chattered
“You’re a pretty thing
Big bamboo room for two
So promise you’ll be true”
Chorus
Down in Jungle Town
A honeymoon is coming soon
Then you’ll hear a serenade
To a pretty monkey maid
And in Monkey Land
The chimpanzees sing in the trees
“She’ll be true to Monkey-doodle-doo”
Way down in Jungle Town
- Soon he came to spoon
Beneath the moon, with his baboon
Tho’ another beau who loves her so
Won’t let her go
King got sore, then softly swore
“His tale of love I’ll cut”
First he bit him then he hit him
With a cocoanut
Hear them sing “Hail the King
He’s Jungle Town’s real thing”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: