Lyrics

A Blue Baboon with a silver spoon
Tried to take the jungle
Pounded his chest was quick to suggest
Critics would be pummeled
The toucan's a spy he dryly muttered
The crocodile should be jailed
The tiger has a look I don't like in his eye
The lion’s a traitor he wailed
The leopards and jaguars they need to be caged
The chimpanzees are a blight
All of these bastardly beasts of the bush
Be them all out of my sight
Oh be them all out of my sight
But Blue Baboon oh ruler of all
Can you not see the wonder
The beauty in all the beasts of the wild
The power and roar of the thunder
The charm of the chimp and the scowl of the owl
The majesty of the elephant
The pride of the lion the cunning of the snake
Simply aglow in their element
Simply aglow in their element
Blasphemic fool! Insubordinate ingrate!
My desires are not subject to debate
Do as I say and then say no more
Or find yourself on the cutting room floor
Along with the others so chopped from the vine
A motley assortment of suck-ups and swine
Once they were golden in my goodly grace
Now simply fodder for which to debase
Hunks of red meat to placate the base
To dangle and toss to the rats in the race
To vilify and deem a disgrace
But the blue baboon was wrong to assume
The jungle would be his slave
The beasts of the wild rose up in communion
And captured him by the cave

They bound him there banished and alone
Barely would they peek
For it were not hard to recall
The nightmare he had wreaked
The beasts of prey have had their say
And though the wild is just that
There's no room for a blue baboon
With an attitude like that
With an attitude like that
With an attitude like that

Lyrics written by Damon Wood 2024