"Monkey On A String" lyrics - CHARLIE POOLE

Most every year when the springtime comes
And the birds begin to sing
An Italian comes around this town
With a monkey on a string
And an organ set that monkey set
Was in the grocery store
The foolish things that monkey does
He sets me in a roar

Now that's the time the monk begins
Heh-ha-ha-ha-ha
Oh how that monkey hops and grins
Heh-ha-ha-ha-ha
Some says he looks like Sally Smith
Some say like Deacon Brown
It's laugh, by gosh, the whole day long
When that darn monkey's done

[Laugh]
Some say he looks like Sally Smith
Some say like Deacon Brown
It's laugh, by gosh, the whole day long
When that darn monkey's done

Some said that the monk was made one night
When I would see the way
That the monk was made from an Italian
On the great creation day
But a monk was made from an Irishman
And I would see the way
That a monk was made from an Italian
To pass the time away