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Aba Daba Honeymoon - V3b DP

1) The song is about a chimpanzee and monkey who fall in love in the Congo. 2) They communicate by saying "Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab," which means "I love you" in their languages. 3) One night in June, a baboon marries the chimpanzee and monkey, and they go on their "aba daba honeymoon."

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Aba Daba Honeymoon - V3b DP

1) The song is about a chimpanzee and monkey who fall in love in the Congo. 2) They communicate by saying "Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab," which means "I love you" in their languages. 3) One night in June, a baboon marries the chimpanzee and monkey, and they go on their "aba daba honeymoon."

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Aba Daba Honeymoon

by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan (1914)

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C . . . | . . .
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab” means “Monk, I love but you.”
. |

E7 . . . |Am . . .
“Baba daba dab” in monkey talk, means “Chimp, I love you too.”
|F . Cdim7 . |C . A7 .
Then the big ba-boon, one night in June, he married them and very soon,
|D7 . G7 . |C . . . |
They went up-on their aba daba honey-moon.

Am . . . | . . . . |
Way down in the Congo land lived a happy chimpan-zee.
C . G7 . | . . . . |
She loved a monkey, with a long tail, Lordy, how she loved him!
Am . . . | . . . .
Each night he would find her there, swingin' in the coconut tree.
|G7 . . . | . . . . |
And the monkey gay, at the break of day, loved to hear his chimpie say:

C . . . | . . . . |
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab” said the chimpie to the monk.
. . . . |G7 . . . |
“Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab” said the monkey to the chimp.
. . . . |C . . . |
All night long they'd chatter a-way; all day long they were happy and gay,
D . . . |G7 . . . |
Swingin' and singin' in their honky tonky way.

C . . . | . . . .|
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab” means “Monk, I love but you.”
E7 . . . |Am . . .
“Baba daba dab” in monkey talk, means “Chimp, I love you too.”
|F . Cdim7 . |C . A7 .
Then the big ba-boon, one night in June, he married them and very soon,
|D7 . G7 . |C . . . |
They went up-on their aba daba honey-moon.
Fast
C . . . | . . . . |
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab” said the chimpie to the monk.
. . . . |G7 . . . |
“Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab” said the monkey to the chimp.
. . . . |C . . . |
All night long they'd chatter a-way; all day long they were happy and gay,
D . . . |G7 . . . |
Swingin' and singin' in their honky tonky way.

Fast
C . . . | . . . .|
“Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab” means “Monk, I love but you.”
E7 . . . |Am . . .
“Baba daba dab” in monkey talk, means “Chimp, I love you too.”
|F . Cdim7 . |C . A7 .
Then the big ba-boon, one night in June, he married them and very soon,
|D7 . G7 . |C . . . |
They went up-on their aba daba honey-moon.

Slower
|F . Cdim7 . |C . A7 .
Then the big ba-boon, one night in June, he married them and very soon,
|D7 . G7 . |C . . C\
They went up-on their aba daba honey--moo-oo-oon, Honey-moon!

San Jose Ukulele Club


(v3b 6/27/16)

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