Aba Daba Honeymoon
Key: Ab

Music by Arthur Fields
Lyrics by Walter Donovan
Copyright 1914

File Created 4/23/15
File Updated 4/17/19

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Verse 1:

Fm
Way down in the congo land
              C7     Fm
Lived a happy chimpanzee
Ab          Eb
She loved a monkey
       Bb7
With a long tail
Eb            Eb7
Lordy how she loved him

Fm
Each night he would find her there
                C7      Fm
Swinging in the coconut tree
        Eb     Bb7
and the monkey gay
       Eb       Bb7
At the break of day
         Eb       Bb7     Eb Eb7
Loved to hear his chimpee say

Chorus 1:

Ab
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the chimpee to the monk

Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab
        Eb7
said the monkey to the chimp

All night long they'd chatter away
Ab
All day long they were happy and gay
Bb7                           Eb7    Cdim   Eb7
Swinging and singing in their hunkey tonkey way

Ab
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
means monk I love but you

C7
Baba daba dab in monkey talk means
Fm
chimp I love you too

          Bbm7           G7
Then the  big baboon one night in June
   Ab                    F7
he married them and very soon
     Bb7             Eb7           Ab   Eb
They went upon their aba daba honeymoon.

Verse 2:

Fm
Well you should have heard that band
                C7      Fm
Play upon their wedding day
Ab             Eb
Each chimp and monkey
    Bb7
Had nut shells
Eb             Eb7
Lordy how they played them

Fm
And now it is every night
               C7      Fm
High up in the coconut tree
         Eb       Bb7
It's the same old thing
         Eb       Bb7
With the same old swing
         Eb       Bb7     Eb  Eb7
When the monk and chimpee sing

Chorus2:

Ab
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Said the chimpee to the monk
Baba daba daba baba daba dab
         Eb7
Said the monkey to the chimp

All  night long they'd chatter away
Ab
All day long they were happy and gay
Bb7
Swinging and singing in their
Eb7    Cdim   Eb7
Hunkey tonkey way

Ab
Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab
Means Monk I love but you
C7
Baba daba dab in monkey talk
      Fm
Means chimp I love you too

    Bbm7                 G7
One night they were made man and wife
    Ab                  F7
And now they cry, "this is the life."
      Bb7
Since they came from their
Eb7           [Ab  F7
Aba daba honeymoon.
      Bb7
Since they came from their
Eb7                AbEbAb
Aba daba honey moon

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