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