(Here's your grunting rhythem to enhance reading pleasure. It helps to treat this as an interactive performance piece. Also--hop up and down and scratch under one arm as you go along.)

OO--oo--oo--OO-
OO-OO-oo--OO!
OO--oo--oo--OO-
OO--OO--oo--OO!

(That's it...you got it going. You bad!)

You get to me
in the worst way
I'm climbing the bars
of an iron cage--

Once I lived free
high in a tree
Now I'm a number
feel my pain, feel my rage--

Holding on to sanity
where there's a lock,
there must be a key,
Someone, somewhere, save-----
(dramatic pause)
the little monkey--

(Audience participation time. Here's where you get a hold of all the people who have gathered around you to stare. Teach them this refrain...)

Save the monkey!
Save the Monkey!

(Okay, back to you now.)

My head is strange
I need a snack.
A chemical feed
has me on my back

where is the dream
that I once kept near
There's fear in my gut,
I sure could use a beer--

Another ape's got free
picked the lock
and just left me,
Someone, somewhere, save--
(dramatic pause)
this little monkey--

(bring in the chorus)

Save the Monkey!
Save the Monkey!

(Insert a wicked-cool guitar riff here.)

My heart's in pieces
on a metal tray
but you won't
throw it away?---
Waste not, want not,
you humans say.
Seems the great god Science
hasn't eaten today---

Clinging to my sanity
where there's a lock,
there must be a key,
Someone somewhere save--
(dramatic pause)
the little monkey--

Save the Monkey!
Save the Monkey!
Save the Monkey!
Save the Monkey!

OO-oo-oo-OO
OO-OO-oo-OO
OO-oooooooooooo!

(Good job folks--really! Call me sometime. We'll do lunch.)