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MONKEY'S WEDDING. AKA - "The Monkey Married the Baboon's Sister." American, Canadian; Air (4/4 time). A 'monkey's wedding' is a term for a sunshower i.e. when it lightly rains but the sun shines through. "The Monkey's Wedding" is also a song. The opening stanza is from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag (1927):

The monkey married the baboon's sister,
Gave her a ring and then he kissed her.
She set up a yell.
The bridesmaid stuck on some court-plaster.
It stuck so fast it couldn't stick faster.
Surely 'twas a sad disaster,
But it soon got well.

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Recorded sources: RCA Victor LCP 1001, Ned Landry and his New Brunswick Lumberjacks - "Bowing the Strings with Ned Landry."

See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]