I was there on the day the monkey came into this world

His face was round and reddish and his hair was slightly curled

He didn't look too different from the others I had seen

Who'd-a-thought he was the answer to the nation's dream?



At first he didn't seem to be intelligent at all

Each time he'd start to walk about he'd stumble and he'd fall

My first impression was to be a most mistaken thought

Lord a'mighty, what's this little hairy monkey wrought?



Because I witnessed his departure from his mother's womb

I felt inclined to check his progress every afternoon

One day the keeper of the zoo called in the live TV