[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone

[Verse 1]
Down in Kenya where the Masai roam
And the grass grows tall on the veldt
In our old colonial home
We drank our bitters while the empire fell

[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone

[Verse 2]
One day the Mau Mau came
All we had was lost
In our old colonial home
Under the Southern Cross

[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
[Verse 3]
Down in Kenya where the Masai roam
And the grass grows tall on the veldt
In our old colonial home
We drank our bitters while the empire fell

[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone

[Verse 4]
The Mau Mau came in '52
The sun went down and we drew the drapes
In our old colonial home
We hid behind the Mau Mau gates

[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone

[Bridge]
Mzungu arudi ulaya mwa frika apate uhuru
[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Leave my monkey alone
(Mzungu arudi ulaya mwa frika apate uhuru)
Leave my monkey alone
Leave my monkey alone
(Mzungu arudi ulaya mwa frika apate uhuru)
Leave my monkey alone

[Outro]
Mzungu arudi ulaya mwa frika apate uhuru