A novelty monkey love song, 1914. words and music by Arthur Fields & Walter Donovan
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“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Said the Chimpie to the Monk
“Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Said the Monkey to the Chimp
All night long they’d chatter away
All day long there were happy and gay
Swingin’ and singin’ in their hunky tonkey way
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Means “Monk I love but you”
“Baba daba dab” in monkey talk
Means “Chimp I love you too”
Then the big baboon one night in June
He married them and very soon
They went upon their aba daba honeymoon
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“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Said the Chimpie to the Monk
“Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Said the Monkey to the Chimp
All night long they’d chatter away
All day long there were happy and gay
Swingin’ and singin’ in their, hunky tonkey way
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab”
Means “Monk I love but you”
“Baba daba dab” in monkey talk
Means “Chimp I love you too”
One night they were made man and wife
And now they cry “This is the life”
Since they came from their aba daba honeymoon