Monkey Prays for Banana

Once upon a time

I met a monkey

He was a friend of mine

He lived out in the jungle all alone

One day he said to me

Life can be lonely out in the jungle

And don't forget about me

Keep me in your prayers for a while

Every day he had prayed

To the god of the monkeys

For someone to come and save him

From the jungle, he was all alone

He did his best to explain

Life was so lonely out in the jungle

And nobody knew his pain

Was there just one thing that I could do for him?

And the monkey said:

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

There's a banana just for me

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

Oh gee

I had to be on my way

Out of the jungle

The monkey he had to stay

Where the god of the monkeys needed him to be

That day he said to me:

Keep on believing, keep on dreaming

And don't forget about me

Keep me in your prayers for a while

And every day I prayed

To the god of the monkeys

For someone to come and save him

From his misery, he was all alone

I did my best to explain

Life was so lonely out in the jungle

And he was dreaming in vain

I repeated what the monkey said to me

Oh he said:

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

There's a banana just for me

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

Oh gee

Many years from then

I went back to the jungle

To see my monkey friend

But when I got to the jungle

He was nowhere to be found

I thought my monkey had died

There were bananas eaten and scattered

And as I began to cry

A voice began to sing out from the trees

And it said:

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

There's a banana just for me

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

Oh gee

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

There's a banana just for me

There's a banana I've been dreaming of

Oh gee

Oh gee