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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

"Gorilla (gorilla)," my girlfriend explained condescendingly
"Gorilla (gorilla), that is their genus and their species
Gorilla (gorilla), that is their name" but I was thinking
"Gorilla (gorilla), me Tarzan you Jane"

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."

"Gorilla (gorilla)," she said as she walked out the room
"Gorilla (gorilla), you're not a mandrill or a big baboon you're a
Gorilla (gorilla)." That's not my name but she called me
Gorilla (gorilla) just the same

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."