I wish I was a monkey,
 i'd sleep in the trees, 
I'd do my best to imitate the man,
who does his best not to imitate me,
you know I'd have thumbs
just like a man,
 but none of the obligations, yeah everything I'm tied to now would be gone, gone gone gone gone gone,
 I'd like to be a monkey, 
be monkeys with you,
 'cause I'm a monkey by myself with
 a lot of [bad word] to do,
 I'd like to be a monkey, 
be monkeys with you,
'cause I'm a monkey by myself, 
I'm in trouble with my family, 
I'm in trouble with the law, 
I'm in trouble financially, 
I guess you could say 
I get in trouble a lot, 
I've dancedfrantically in passion, 
I've lain motionless in apathy,
 but all I wanna do is swing in a tree, 
away from the agony of
 love and  and [bad word] .. 
and all of the lack there-ofs, 
I'd like to be a monkey,
 be monkeys with you,
'cause I'm a monkey by myself with
 a lot of [bad word] to do,
 I'd like to be a monkey, 
be monkeys with you, 
'cause I'm a monkey by myself... 
Now if I was a monkey
 I'd be very very funky, 
an abundance of bananas, 
monkey [bad word] and the skunky, 
big red eyes and a big red [bad word]  
chilling in my monkey bungalow
 made of sticks and grass, 
the monkey life is the life for me, 
not a pirate or an MC, 
MC spidermonkey, 
the fly white honky, the king of the jungle, the pimp in the palm trees, 
dipping, sipping on coconut wine, 
blinging out my rings,
 busting out my rhymes,  [bad word] in my pint sized Escalade,
smoking Philly blunts in the shade, 
this monkeys' got it made.