Aba daba honeymoon : as featured by Ruth Roye, the Princess of ragtime ... / by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan

3145-4 Leo Feist

VERSE 1:'Way down in the Congo-land/ Lived a happy chimpanzee, /She loved a monkey with a long tail /(Lordy, how she loved him!)/Each night he would find her there,/Swinging in the cocoanut tree,/And the monkey gay, at the break of day,/Loved to hear his Chimpie say:
CHORUS 1: "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, /Swinging and singing 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 vey soon,/They went upon their aba, daba honeymoon.
VERSE 2: Well, you should have heard that band/Play upon their wedding day,/Each Chimp and Monkey had nutshells,/Lordy, how they played them;/And now it is ev'ry night, /High up in the cocoanut tree,/It's the same old thing, with the same old swing,/When the Monk and Chimpie sing:
CHORUS 2: "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, /Swinging and singing 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.