copyright 1993 Urko Aldo music
words by Rand Bellavia and Adam L. English
music by Adam L. English and Rand Bellavia
performed by Ookla the Mok
Well my girlfriend and I went to the zoo on a Sunday afternoon
Neither one of us had been there since we were seven or eight
She had her notebook and pen she was all set to work on her
Master's project
On the dating routines of the higher primates
She was studying how the monkeys lived from an arch-feminist
perspective
I was the king of the jungle in my mind
Her theory was that anything with muscles that big had to be a
sexist pig
Even though gorillas aren't pigs they still can be swine
She was writing this neat information down, I was beating my
chest making, "Ooo ooo" sounds
Hanging upside down off the gibbon exhibit
She dropped her notebook and put her pen behind her ear and said
in a voice all the monkeys could hear
"Young man you get down from that cage this minute!"
I was feeding my shoe to a marmoset and my girlfriend
got real upset
She said, "I've only one thing to say to you."
Paraphrasing two of her books which still sit on my shelves: Origin
of Species and Our Bodies, Our Selves
She said, "I guess that it's true, monkey see, monkey
do."
She called me Gorilla (gorilla) but then she changed
her mind
"I've never seen a gorilla who smoked or drank or
lied
I thought you were a gorilla, but that isn't true
Cause I've never seen a gorilla as ugly as you."
