Monkey Speaks His Mind Why the very idea is a big disgrace No monkey ever deserted his wife Starved her baby and ruined her life The monkey speaks his mind And you've never known a mother monkey To leave her babies with others to bunk And pass them on from one to another Till they scarcely knew which was their mother Yeah, the monkey speaks his mind And another thing you will never see A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree And let other coconuts go to waste Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste Why have I put a fence around this tree Starvation would force you to steal from me Yeah, the monkey speaks his mind Here's another thing that a monkey won't do Go out at night and get all in a stew Or use a gun or a club or a knife And take another monkey's life Yes, man descended the worthless bum But brothers from us he did not come Yeah, the monkey speaks his mind Yeah, now the monkey speaks his mind