Fifteen minutes of fame

But not quite a household name

Adrift in a rocky sea

The space-faring chimpanzee

What do I owe to this country?

I’m not even from here

They imported me from the Cameroons

West Africa, my proper biosphere

They put me in these rubber pants

And diapers, how I hate them;

Rewarding me with an apple and half an orange

If I could only speak I would berate them

They call me Ham, and mad I am

Spacecraft 5 first class

I flew alone in my redstone

Now go ahead and kiss

My screwy looking-ass

Now I cannot wait for nuclear devastation

When the humans let their techno toys

Destroy their precious nation

And the simian population

Shall band together and pronounce

Our freedom’s declaration

Which the humans will renounce

They call me Ham and mad I am

First primate in outer space

Encased in some titanium

The search planes soon to trace