I thought she was polish, but what did I know?
I paid the five bucks, and I went in the show..
believe you me, it's understood,
see an old banana, they gypped me good...

striptease chimpanzees,
they're peelin for the people every town, they told us,
striptease chimpanzees,
and every night all the apes would come around,
peel their banana down

picked up a chimp from a tampa bay zoo,
this one was a natural, she knew what to do
that was number twenty one,
first stripped off in memphis,
all the men who saw her told her she was the "one"

striptease chimpanzees,
they're peelin for the people every town, they told us,
striptease chimpanzees,
and every night all the apes would come around,
peel their banana down

they never had schoolin, but they learned so well
with their smooth jungle style
three months later, we all got in trouble
PETA came in for a while, uh huh
the indictment it was filed, uh huh

I thought she was polish, but what did I know?
I paid the five bucks, and I went in the show..
believe you me, it's understood,
see an old banana, they gypped me good...

striptease chimpanzees,
they're peelin for the people every town, they told us,
striptease chimpanzees,
and every night all the apes would come around,
peel their banana down