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Artist: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Canonical path: /big-bad-voodoo-daddy/i-wanna-be-like-you
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I Wanna Be Like You
Read I Wanna Be Like You lyrics by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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I Wanna Be Like You
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Now I'm the king of the swingers, boy Jungle V.I.P.
I've reached the top, and had to stop,
And that's what's bothering me
I wanna be a man, a man cub stroll right into town
and be just like the other men I'm tired of monkeying around
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So woowooooh, I wanna be just like you
I wanna walk like you, talk like you do
You see it's true, an ape like me
can learn to be human too, yeah
Now, don't you mess with me man-cub
I made a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire
So I can be just like you
An' don't you mess with me man-cub
Tell me what to do give me the bar of man's red fire
so I can be just like you
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