You call yourself
the jungle king
You call yourself a jungle king
You call yourself a jungle king
But I found out you ain't a dog or a man
Said the monkey to the lion
on a bright summer day
There's a big bad cat
living down the way
He talks about your folks
in a heck of a way
And a lot of other thing
s I'm afraid to say
The lion jumps up all full of rage
Like a Harlem cat that's left in his cage
He meets the elephant up under a tree
And he said, big boys, either you or me
The elephant looks him over
from the corner of his eyes
You better find someone
to fight that's more your size
The lion jumps up and
makes a fancy pass
But the elephant knocks
him over in the grass
They fought all day, they fought all night
I don't know what happened,
but things got tight
The lion came back more dead than alive
And that's when the monkey
really started his jive
You call yourself the Jungle King,
you call yourself the Jungle King,
you call yourself the Jungle King,
but I've found out you ain't a doggone thing.
Well, he waked up his temper
when he's jumping up and down
and his foot missed the limb
and his head hit the ground
like a bolt of lightning an
d a streak of heat.
The lion was on him
with all four feet,
but the monkey looked up
from the corner of his eyes,
said now Mr. Lion, I apologize.
The monkey's on his back
studying up a scheme,
he's trying to get rid of that jungle king.
You bear with me, and I wish you would,
I'll tear you up all over the woods.
The lion jumps up and
squares off for a fight
But the monkey jumped completely
out of sight
So if you bother me again
I'll turn you over to my elephant friend
You call yourself the Jungle King
You call yourself the Jungle King
You call yourself the Jungle King
But I found out you ain't
a normal thing