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Monkey Pudding was written in 1999 and performed as a tour of preschools and daycares in Vancouver in 2000.
Two of the poems from the Monkey Pudding project, “Hello There” and “I Wanna”, were recorded as part of the album, Plattapussy.
boom
shhhhhhhhhhhh
monkey
there’s an electric zig zag power snag going ’round my brain.
boom boom boom ba doop
shhhhhhhhhhh
pudding
there’s a sweet tongue tickling tug of war splashing in the rain.
boom boom boom ba doop
boom boom ba boom ba doop
grrrrrrr grrrrrr garaggle
shhhhhhhhhhh
boom ba doop a doom ba doop a doom barrumph
i want to eat you up barrumph barrumph all up. all up. barrumph
up up, up up, up up and away
it’s…
boom ba doop a doom barrumph
barrumph ba doop a doom
barrumph
there are sad times sometimes
and sometimes our feelings hurt
there are glad times sometimes
and sometimes we want to blurt
boom ba doop a doop doom
ba doop ba doop barrumph
boom ba doop a doom boom boom
barrumph barrumph
share with me. you. all of you. share with me. always. in all ways.
sad ways. side ways. good days and bad days.
share with me. amaze me
you bedazzle all of you
with love sparks
share with me whiskers all ways in all ways
and your shimmering shine
boom ba doop a doom ba doop a doom
barrumph barrumph
ba doop a doom barrrumph
shhhhhhhhhh
monkey! pudding!
chant
monkey! pudding!
monkey-monkey! pudding-monkey!
pudding-pudding! monkey-pudding!
you can put it in your shoes
you can squish it with your toes
you can smear it on your face
you can wash it with your clothes
you can throw it at your friends
you can hide it in your bed
you can slap it on your bum
you can feed it to the dead
monkey! pudding!
there’s nothing else that’s quite as gooding
as good old fashioned monkey pudding
people you don’t like…they like monkey pudding
those folks you think strange…they like monkey pudding
it’s makes them stranger, it’s them stronger
it makes them weirder, it makes them laugh longer
it’s good to be different, it’s fun to be a freak
it’s good that your thoughts are the one’s that you think
monkey! pudding!
there’s nothing else that’s quite as gooding
as good old fashioned monkey pudding
heroes
monkey pudding Pete
had really big feet
feet bigger than a dinosaur’s bum
and Pete dug his feet
he liked to walk on the street
fwip fwap, fwop fweep, fwop fwum
monkey pudding Pam
had a tongue made from jam
jam thicker than a marshmallow’s bed
and Pam loved her tongue
all the songs it did sung
whoop lee dee da, dum doodle dee ded
monkey pudding Paul
had hands that were small
hands smaller than a wee baby mouse
but Paul loved his hands
they played drums in a band
poutta pitta, pitta patta, potta pouse
hooray to all our heroes
who come in many shapes and sizes
these monkey pudding people
give us all some wonderful surprises
luuuuuuvvvvvvss
monkey pudding luuuuuuvvvvvvss
to be ruuuuuubbbbbbed
the right way
get ready for good times
get ready for fun
put your hands on your belly
on your tummy tum tum
wiggle your fingers and lickle your lips
let out a squeal as you jiggle your hips
monkey pudding luuuuuuvvvvvss
to be ruuuuuubbbbbed
the right way
hello there
hello there man in the moon
hello there monsieur la lune
hello there sad funny face
lonely and hollow crying in space
i’ll be your friend and i’ll be the one
who plays games with you instead of the sun
we’ll play hide and seek when night turns to day
i’ll be there when it’s cloudy and never run away
so i’m coming for a visit i’m flying to the moon and
i’m bringing monkey pudding i’m bringing two big spoons
i’m bringing two big buckets, we’ll fill them to the top
i’m bringing all my jokes so the smiles will never stop
there’ll be clapping and laughing and songs to be sung
we’ll shout silly things at the top of our lungs
“SHNEEPY, SHNEEPY, POOH, POOH, BAH”
“FROOPY, FROOPY, ZOOH, ZOOH, DAH”
we’ll bang pots and pans we’ll blow balloons ’till they’ve popped
we’ll make as much noise as we like, then take a nap once we’ve stopped
and the dreams that we’ll have will make all people happy
they’ll bump into strangers and say “burga row toing toing va booble va
bappy”
so close your eyes. imaginize. fantasize. it’ll be a surpise.
here i come friend ta ta ta dooooooooooom
space is our playground za za za zoooooooooooom
music
last night i saw you making music
you were playing monkey pudding songs
the words they didn’t make much sense
still everyone was singing along
there’s gimble in my snooky there’s trumble in my wak
the scrumble in the trower looks just like a frikka frak
the monkey is a pudding and the pudding is a gloop
the pinto is a pony and the pony is a shloop
wrinkle all the frankles and ruble the up tight
twinkle all the tangled and fladingle all the fright
porch the prumblik on yer mimbly tickle twist the oochie loos
patch the jumble in yer gringles wripple wist the smoochie smoos
the accordion played it’s ooom pah pah’s
the bongos bounced out a beat
marvellous sounds came from marvellous mouths
people tapped the floor with their toes and their feet
ooom pah ooom pah ooom pah pah
babooomba putta putta pow
chugga hah chugga hah ratta tat tat
zazoompah gutta gutta wow
then once the night was over
when all the monkey pudding playing was done
some people cried but most of them laughed
it had been a while since they had so much fun
go go hee hee go go oh my
whatta whatta whatta wonderful time
yar yar hooray yar yar moo mow
and it all cost us less than a dime
pajamas
monkey pudding pajamas are wonderful things
spots winking on flannel
playing “eye spy” with dreams
“i spy with my winking spot spy
a marshmallow coloured green
a horse with an eyepatch
a wheelbarrow full of laughs”
“yps tops gnikniw ym htiw yps i
arepo gnignis gorf a
sklat taht dalas otatop
eybdoog gniyas fo derit rotovele na”
kerboing kerbong jump jump jump high
the pogo sticks are bouncing in town
hop hop whoop whoop hop hop whoopeye
let’s help them pretend to be clowns
commander, there’s no time to explain but someone has just put jello in my pants
that’s not a rooster it’s just james coburn
one day that elevator is going to realize that she’s hungry
stop! fudge!puns
if monkey pudding was
a broken boat
it would be sunky pudding
if monkey pudding was
rock and roll
it would be punky pudding
if monkey pudding knew
how to dance
it would be funky pudding
if monkey pudding was
able to talk
it would be tonguekey pudding
if monkey pudding was
coffee and donuts
it would be dunky pudding
if monkey pudding was
mary tyler moore
it would be spunky pudding
if monkey pudding got
bad grades
it would be flunky pudding
if monkey pudding was
only found at the dump
it would be junky pudding
if monkey pudding had
lived in the 5th century a.d.
it would be attila the hun-key pudding
santa
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
just for you and me
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
to put under the christmas tree
pudding that’s gooey, pudding that’s sticky
pudding that’s jargy, pudding that’s shnicky
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
made by christmas elves
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
to fill the christmas shelves
monkey pudding garboozle, monkey pudding gratingle
monkey pudding badoozle, monkey pudding babingle
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
because he knows he should
santa’s bringing pudding
monkey pudding
to help us all feel good
horky chorky, diggy doozy
happy thoughts and kindest wishes
to all the monkeys of the world
may you be filled by magic dishes
tuba
alone
all alone
all alone in my tub
all alone in my tub with a tuba
making sweet tuba music
making sweet tuba sounds
toobing sweet tuba tangos
in sweet tuba towns
my tub is a place of magic my tuba is a thing of treats
i can hold my breath for hours and i can float in space and i can juggle bubbles and i can make a tidal wave to splash my sister’s bedroom and i can wrinkle up like grandpa’s belly and i be a submarine and i can be a shark and i can be a whale and i can be a stingray and i can be a jellyfish and i can be a cyclone and i can be a typhoon and i can be a hurricane and i can be an island with buried treasure and i can be a pirate and i can be a speedboat and i can fart underwater and still smell the stink.
and you know i’m not the only one
it’s easy for anyone to do
just make a circle with your fingers
and let the world know that you’re you
hooooooooo
ok, ok that’s good but not quite
take a deeper breath
make it last a little longer
hhhhhhhoooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaooooo
quite nice quite nice you’re learning very quick
still i think you need to think like a tuba
pretend you’re a laugh and let your tummy jiggle
i think that will surely do the trick
hoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmaaaaaaaoooooooeeeeeaaaaaoooo
i’m quite proud of you
i’m quite proud indeed
tomorrow we’ll try a trombone
vocab
oboe dobow day whoop poo poo
sleepy jee baw chop chop faphoo
grrrr grrrr rumble boo bag dong dicky
dubba dubba kerchoo-choo fing fang fong ficky
fraka fraka
shucka chaka
poo-too ping ping
monkey pudding dingle whoop monkey pudding shingle ding
gratoing! sproink! spladoodie!
putta putta potta
gabba gooey rump
morgo jaka fargy
ningy clompy clump
zargo chomp/chomp chomp
rrrrruffle
giddy up
kersploosh
i wanna
i want to be happy i want to have fun
i want life to smell like fresh cinnamon buns
i would love to be silly i would love to be free
i would love to be a monkey in a giant pudding tree
i yearn to be goofy i yearn to be glad
i yearn to eat pancakes before they go bad
i need to be quirky i need to be odd
i need to take showers and act like a frog
i have to have laughter i have to have puns
i have teeth made from soap so i have bubblegums
i enjoy whistling i enjoy rhyme
i enjoy pennies quarters nickels and dimes
i want to hug strangers i want to feel love
i want to make up new words like swingthugglegruv
i don’t want to be angry i don’t want to make sense
blue coloured chocolates are my real grandparents
i want to throw boomerangs i want to hula hoop
i want a smile on my face when i have to go poop
i need you to like me and i don’t really care
i need you to know i’m just glad i shared
whispers
i have heard the whispers
whispering
is it true
i have heard the doubters
doubting
who are you
to sing to say about the pudding
monkey pudding
who are you to say?
well
i have played the pudding games
i have worn the pudding shoes
i have gone to pudding hospitals
i have worked in pudding zoos
i have heard the pudding crying
i have heard the pudding moos
i have seen the pudding sadness
i have heard the pudding blues
i am me
the words are mine
thubba dubba doo badoo
sproink.
whoop
whoop whoop whoop
i think i really like you
whoop whoop whoop
you really make me laugh
yup yup yup
i’d truly like to hug you
yup yup yup
you never take a bath
zoip zoip zoip
let’s bake a pie together
zoip zoip zoip
let’s go build a fort
ting tang tong
i love to see you smiling
ting tang tong
i want to hear you snort
bang bang bang
you’re my friend forever
bang bang bang
you were made for me
clang clang clang
we all like monkey pudding
clang clang clang
you’re who i like to see
monkeypooding
monkey pudding is toilet trained
an expert at numbers 1 and 2
monkey pudding knows how to pee
monkey pudding knows how to…..poo
monkey pudding has no bottom
there’s no need to worry about wiping
monkey pudding has no stink
there’s no need for any griping
splishhhh lishhh flishhhy bloop
plop plop, blip blop, ger sploosh
let monkey pudding eat all it wants
let monkey pudding stay all day long
then when monkey pudding has to go
listen to it sing this song
snigga doo ding ding
ragga foo fang
marba munch wing ting
cheeba moo tang
i like to watch the poo go round
talk to it and say goodbye
it’s like making yourself a brand new friend
and have them move at the very same time
boo hoo oh well
there’s no need for sorrow
hoo boo pray tell
there’ll be plenty tomorrow
love
it’s all the strange and odd and wonderful things
that bubble and booble deep down inside
it’s all the magical and moody and mischievous things
that squiggle and wiggle ‘til you stop asking why
do all the things
you never thought
that you’d do
for no other reason
than they feel good to you
sleep in satellite dishes and
send your dreams to the stars
catch the wind in your arms and
free butterflies from jars
tell old people they’re loved
read shy people a story
pass the puck to a friend
let them feel the glory
hallelujah hallelujah clap clap hoorah
it’s monkey pudding love
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