J Fred Joins in Song

Sing Song

Holy Molely Diddlely doo

help me sing this song through

the words dance into my head

recalling my chimpanzee named Fred

He was my fuzzy big ol’ boy

sat upon my bench for toys

Daddy made that bench of green

the finest toy box I’d ever seen

He sat on it next to my bunk bed

waiting for a story to be read

to float into his monkey head

and he listened to all I said

oh, now sing along with me

wish I could have climbed a tree

in my tree house of wild cherry

viewed the world, ate black berries

I read a thing on Facebook, mouth agape

about how Earth was formed for us apes

I felt, oh my how can this be

the apes would be mad at me

Calling us one of their kind

furry their minds to tow the line

to think that we were one of them

would send them to the loony pen

Humans might talk write and sing

and think that they know every thing

But Fred told me a little story so true:

“Monkeys, and Chimps and Orangutans too

Are not humans like you know who

We apes would put you, not us, in a zoo

That is All, so I must say too-da-loo

So I sing good-bye to Y. O. U !”

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