Lyrics
Well, it used to be quite different, ‘round our jungle home, the air was fresh,
and the water was clear and everything was green, and all the animals, well,
y’know, they did their thing, they acted like ANIMALS, we had FUN!
Way up in the trees there’s a symphony of action,
A million colored birds all flyin’ around, they’re just flappin’. WE’RE JUST FLAPPIN’. Down on the ground, me and all the other cats are just prowlin’, PROWLIN’ !
And the lizards and snakes are crawlin’, CRAWLIN’ !
And the alligators are chompin’, CHOMP - CHOMPIN’ !
Flippin’ around all over the place are the monkeys ! WO-O-A-AH !!
Chorus: We’re just swingin’ , from limb to limb. Just swingin’, from tree to tree.
We’re just swingin’, from vine to vine, swingin’ in the jungle !
Life can be so fine, swingin’ in the jungle, OO! OO! Swingin’ in the jungle, OO! OO!
Swingin’ in the jungle! Whoo-eee! Swinging in the jungle!
Then one dark day, we woke to find, smoke had filled the sky. There was a terrible noise in the distance, getting closer all the time. So we went to check it out!
(Chorus) ....... but then the trees just stopped, and the monkeys dropped!
Then everywhere that you could see were humans and machines,
Chopping down the trees, taking my home away from me. And then they burned what was left on the ground, so we had to turn around and ever since that day when we hear that sound, we have to run away..... but we’ll keep swingin’. (Chorus)
But my friends, we’re running out of trees ! Swingin’ in the jungle.
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