| Three monkeys in the mango tree
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| Were indulging in philosophy.
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| And as I walked by the mango tree,
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| One of them addressed himself to me:
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| «Hey, man, is it true what they say?
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| Hey, man, is it true that today
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| They claim that my brothers and me
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| Are the predecessors of humanity?
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| Hey, man, why you give us bad name?
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| Hey, man, it’s a blight and a shame
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| To claim this uncivilized cuss
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| Could have been descended from the likes of us.
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| How can you have the brazen face
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| To scandalize our noble race?
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| Don’t identify yourself with me,»
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| Said the monkey in the mango tree…
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| «Hey, man, why you give us bad name?
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| Hey, man, it’s a blight and a shame
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| To claim, most un-biblically,
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| That this chump could once have been a chimpanzee.»
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| That’s the monkey language!
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| The monkey very clever!
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| Which is to say, in his own way,
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| Would a monkey ever
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| Analyze his psyche, amortize his soul,
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| Tranquilize his frontal lobes with al-co-houl,
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| Televise his follies and the life he lives,
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| Eulogize his gargles and his laxatives,
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| Simonize his teeth, lanolize his hands,
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| Hormonize his chromosomes with monkey glands,
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| Mechanize the Greeks, modernize the Turks,
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| And then with one little atom -- poof! |
| -- atomize the works?
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| «Hey, man, do you call it fair play?
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| Hey, man, is it brilliant to say
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| That the monkey and his uncles and his cousins and his aunts
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| Are the parents of such foolishment and de-ca-dance?
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| Don’t identify yourself with me,»
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| Said the monkey in the mango tree. |