The Chimpanzoo



The Chimpanzoo is a deleted song from Mary Poppins. Richard Sherman sang this song in a 2004 while playing piano.

Lyrics
In Timbuktu, there's a Chimpanzoo

That's run by a chimpanzee.

It's an oddish place where the human race

Is under lock and key.

And on their backs, they wear small plaques

For the animals to view.

Which specify the reasons why

They're kept in the Chimpanzoo.

If you're boisterous and bumptious,

you're grist for the Chimpanzoo!

If you're overly bambuctious,

you're whisked to Timbukto

Laughs, laughs, nothing but laughs

But you know who's laughing at who?

It's the animals there who giggle and stare

at you in the Chimpanzoo!

(Kazoo break)

You may never play the musicals

In all your wildest dreams

But billowing blasts in the Chimpanzoo

And the animals burst their seams.

It takes a lot of talented time

To become a west in detraction.

But in this place, one rude grimace

Gets a marvelous reaction.

Laughs, laughs, nothing but laughs

But you know who's laughing at who?

It's the animals there who giggle and stare

Gate with glee imperviously

At the boisterous bumptious rowdy crew

At you in the Chimpanzoo.