No plan behind it Just a man behind it No meaning to it Don't do no kneeling to it Ain't no real snag Ain't nothing but the good old gag Ain't no song to sing Ain't nothing but a ding dong thing And it got me Right out of the cage, yeah Yeah, it got me Everybody ding, everybody dong Everybody singing the monkey song Like I do, I do, I do Everybody dong, everybody ding Monkey boy doing the monkey thing Like I do, I do, I do Ain't no thrilling flutes No retro boots No jangling lutes My real roots Monkey see what the monkey see And then you know what the monkey do Monkey, monkey, monkey me And then a monkey, monkey you 'Coz it got me And it got me Everybody ding, everybody dong Everybody singing the monkey song Like I do, I do, I do Everybody dong, everybody ding Monkey boy doing the monkey thing Like I do, I do, I do, hey Everybody ding, everybody dong Everybody wanna sing The same old monkey song Everybody dong, everybody ding Monkey boy doing the monkey thing Like I do, I do, yeah