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Monkey Business - just stop monkeying around and sell those bananas! KS2
The Monkey Clan were going bananas … well, they were trying to sell bananas anyway.
They were a bit out of their depth in the city, but were hoping to clinch a good deal and not slip up … (on a banana skin perjaps?)
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MONKEY BUSINESS. SCRIPT Dave Corbett. 2025
Dosh, dough, lucre, moola, wonga, spondulies, just a few slang terms that mean money. That’s what the company Favourite Foods Ltd was trying to make. Now they were trying to clinch a deal with big supermarket chains to provide bananas, among other things.
They had connections in all the main countries that provide bananas. Ecuador, Guatemala, Brazil among others, but their main source was India, which produces, and eats, more bananas than any other country apparently. Wonder why there aren’t more recipes for banana curry.
They were on the cusp of securing a very lucrative deal with two big potential customers, Faldi and Fidl, when up popped, or rather dangled down, The Mighty Monkey Clan, a bunch of, well obviously not bananas, but a company that knew a thing or two about bananas. Actually is bunch the correct collective term for monkeys? A melee of monkeys, a mix of monkeys, a mob, mangle, murmur of monkeys?
Anyway, t’s a corporate jungle out there. Let battle commence. Favourite Foods Ltd were actually not too concerned about a bunch of bananas, sorry, monkeys. Monkeys have peanut brains after all.
The Mighty Monkey Clan however were very confident. They were not going to hang around waiting to be outsmarted by some city slickers.
They had great confidence in their deal which was to provide the bananas and then be PAID in bananas, not cash. Not too bright an idea perhaps. They had no use for cash after all. Perhaps The Mighty Monkey Clan had been a little over confident. Perhaps they had slipped up … on banana skins maybe? Perhaps they did have peanut brains after all. Anyway, it may not come as a massive surprise to know that they lost the deal. Back to the jungle.
The moral of this monkey tail? Enjoy your bananas.
MONKEY BUSINESS / LYRICS. Dave Corbett
CHORUS
You can’t make a monkey out of me… no.
Do you think we just fell off a tree? Oh no.
Do you think primates have a peanut brain?
Well then it’s time for you to think again.
So tell us what you really, really think… yeah.
Do you really need a missing link? Oh yeah.
Homo sapiens is just a man, but we’re the mighty monkey clan.
Monkey business. Wooh, wooh, wooh, wooh.
1
We don’t see a monkey puzzle here,
business strategy is very clear,
we will soon be selling ripe bananas by the ton … oh yeah.
We don’t hang around, we’re on the go,
where there’s business we are in the know,
when we get to monkey around it’s really fun… oh yeah,
when we get to monkey around it’s really fun… oh yeah.
Monkey business.
JUNGLE DRUMS: It’s a jungle out there! (Spoken)
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2
You see monkey and you see a fool,
you don’t realise that we are cool;
we have been around a lot longer than mankind… oh yeah.
So don’t judge everything by what you see,
don’t dismiss a creature up a tree;
there is nothing finer than a mighty monkey mind… oh yeah,
there is nothing finer than a mighty monkey mind… oh yeah.
Monkey business.
JUNGLE DRUMS: It’s a jungle out there! (Spoken)
CHORUS