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Way down in the Congo land lived a happy chimpanzee
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She loved a monkey with a long tail lordy how she loved him
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Each night he would find her there swingin' in the coconut tree
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And the monkey gay at the break of day loved to hear his chimpie say
 
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Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab said the chimpie to the monk
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Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab said the monkey to the chimp
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All night long they'd chatter away all day long they were happy and gay
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Swingin' and singin' in their honky tonky way
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Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab means monk I love but you
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Aba daba dab in monkey talk means chimp I love you too
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Then the big baboon one night in June he married them and very soon
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They went upon their aba daba honeymoon
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