Monkey Love by Trapper


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The Song Challenge: I Wanna Hold Your . . . May 31 — A sex-crazed male monkey has caused an uproar in a central Sri Lankan town, stalking and attacking girls in public and flirting outrageously with cats and dogs, a newspaper said on Wednesday. The monkey has roused the anger of residents of Kundasale by following young women around the town, jumping on them without warning and clinging tenaciously until it was chased away with sticks and stones, the Daily News reported. Apparently having little success with human females, the primate also makes advances on other animals to which it has "a very strong affinity (particularly) cats and dogs of the opposite sex," the newspaper said, adding the creature fed its libido by stealing chocolates from local shops. The monkey business has outraged the town in Sri Lanka's conservative rural heartland where public displays of affection are frowned upon even between humans of the opposite sex.

Monkey Love by Trapper
(Words by Al Boyce / Tune: Radar Love by Golden Earring)

I've been swinging all night, just eatin' my meal
Ate my banana then I had to peel
The city's callin', says I need you here
I'm sniffin' the air - some lovin's near!

CHORUS 1:
When I get lonely and the longing gets too much
Hangin' from a cable I swing in from above
Don't need no jungle at all
I've got a thing
That's called: Monkey Love
I've got my nose in the air...
Monkey Love!

Little girl is singing some forgotten song
The pussy cat is coming on strong
The poodle's got me hypnotised
I'm gonna give one a BIG surprise!

CHORUS 2:
When I get lonely, and I'm sure I've had enough
I get juiced on chocolates and swing down from above
Don't need no condoms at all
I've got a thing
That's called: Monkey Love
I've got my eye on the prize...
Monkey Love!

No more mocha I'm almost there,
One more leap and I'll be in her hair!
Can't let one pass, here I go!
To the line of girls movin' down below
And that little girl's singing that forgotten song
And the pussy cat's coming on strong
And the poodle's bell is ringin' my ding-dong
One more Monkey Love has gone!

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