James Taylor – Gorilla (Ukulele)

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[Verse 1]
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He's got arms like legs, he's got hands on his feet

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He's got a nose like a doughnut, got a tendency to overeat

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He don't use tools or weapons,  he don't eat meat

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He likes to stick to the bushes, tends to avoid the street

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But he rides my El Dorado, baby, when he comes to town

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You know he's out there somewhere,  trying to track you down
[Verse 2]
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Look up in the sky,  mama that's the one, yeah, uh huh

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See the mighty profile,  block the noonday sun

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He comes from the heart of darkness a thousand miles from here

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That's the land where they understand what a woman might like to hear

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You know that he loves you baby,  for what you really are

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His love is as burning hot,  as a big old ten cent cigar
[Middle eight]
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[gorilla grunts]
[Verse 3]
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Now most of y'all have seen a gorilla in a cage at the local zoo

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He mostly sits around contemplating,  all the things that he'd prefer to do

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He dreams about the world outside from behind those bars of steel

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And no one seems to understand about the heartache the man can feel

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The people stop and stare but nobody seems to care

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It don't seem right somehow,  it just don't seem fair

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Nononono, nononono, dweet dweet doody doo,

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Come on baby,  he's still a gorilla, [gorilla grunts]