99 Chimpanzees

    Bullies in jeans
    sense a new target
    mob goes wild
    knuckle-walking to his home

    Peering in his windows
    climbing on his roof
    leering at his family --
    starting to display!

    Pant-hoot hoot hoot
    Pant-hoot hoot
    National security
    Pant-hoot hoot hoot

    They burst inside his home
    swinging all around
    inspecting every cranny
    a grand chimpanzee time

    And then they find their target
    drag him out the door
    swat him as they go
    spinning in delight

    ``To the pedestal'' one hoots
    the others all agree
    to the pedestal they take him
    force him up on top

    Now they point and hoot
    dancing all around
    then 10 chimps knock him off --
    Paaaaaaannnnt-hoot! This is good!

    He fell from grace, he flew too high
    ho ho ho all the tired taunts we love
    put him back up a few times
    we love so much to knock him down

    New game! We'll tell him its a game
    a game he has to play
    where we make all the rules
    and we do all the judging

    And by the way, he lost!
    hoot hoot hoot ha ha ha...

    But chimpanzee rampages
    have a way of dying down
    and all the other champanzees
    are looking at the 99...

    He made us do it
    We did it for you
    For the children
    For all that we hold dear
    And some stupid chimpanzees buy it
    And some scared chimpanzees buy it
    And some complicit chimpanzees buy it
    And some greedy chimpanzees buy it
    And some chimpanzees waiting
              for the fun of the next rampage

     

     

     

    [My sincerest apologies to all actual chimpanzees.]

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