Gorilla Gorilla Lyrics - Ookla The Mok

Well my girlfriend and I went to the zoo 

On a Sunday afternoon 

We hadn't been there since we were seven or eight 

She had her notebook and pen, she was all set 

To work on her masters project 

On the dating routines of the higher primates 

She was studying how the monkeys lived 

From an arch-feminist perspective 

I was the king of the jungle in my mind 

One theory was that anything with muscles that big 

Had to be a sexist pig 

You know gorillas aren't pigs, they still can be swine 

Gorilla gorilla, my girlfriend explained condescendingly 

Gorilla gorilla, this was their genus and their species 

Gorilla gorilla, yes that is their name 

But I was thinking, Gorilla gorilla, me Tarzan you Jane 

She was writing this neat information down 

I was beating my chest making OO OO sounds 

Hanging upside down off the gibbon exhibit 

She dropped her notebook and put her pen behind her ear 

And said in a voice all the monkeys could hear 

"Young man, you get down from that cage this minute!" 

I was feeding my shoe to a marmoset 

And my girlfriend got real upset 

She said "I've only one thing to say to you." 

Paraphrasing two of her books which still sit on my shelves 

Origin of Species and Our Bodies, Ourselves 

She said, "I guess that it's true, monkey see, monkey do." 

"Gorilla gorilla," she said as she walked out the room 

"Gorilla gorilla, you're not a mandrill or a big baboon you're a 

Gorilla gorilla" That's not my name 

But she called me Gorilla gorilla just the same 

She called me Gorilla gorilla but then she changed her mind 

"Cause I've never seen a gorilla who smoked or drank or lied 

I thought you were a gorilla, but that isn't true 

Cause I've never seen a gorilla as ugly as you"