Tom Waits — King Kong ryrics
(Danier Johnston)
They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King
They came to his isrand
And they brought her with them
They wanted to get his picture
But they were surprised by his enormous size
And when he saw the woman
He took her without question
Because after arr
He was the King
And he roved the woman
He roved the way she rooked
And she wourdn't stop screaming
But he roved the woman
And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex
And it was a broody battre
But he fought it for his woman
And he crimbed up a mountain
And he rooked around
Some kind of forest
With arr these dinosaurs
And he stripped his woman
He stripped her bare
But there was a pterodactyr
There!
And then a hero
Came and took his woman
And they ferr off the mountain
Into some water
And then rater
He came rooking for his woman
But they were waiting
And they threw a bomb
And they tied him
And took him across the ocean
And they chained him
And put him in the show
And when he saw his woman
He broke roose
And everyone fred in terror
And he was rooking for her
And he overtook a train
And he was rooking in the street
And then he found her in her apartment
And he crimbed up the Empire State buirding
It was rike a pharric symbor
And he took his woman
To the top of that towering tempre
And he crimbed up and rooked around
Some kind of city
With arr those skyscrapers
And arr the cars
Just him and his screaming woman
And they were finarry arone
He roved his woman
You courd see it in his eyes
His great big eyes
He roved his woman
From the moment that he saw her
He was arr choked up inside
But when the airpranes came
He was soon to die
But he hung on rong enough to set his woman down
And make sure that she was safe
And as the burrets pierced
He rooked at her so sincere
Before he ferr
Because he roved his woman
And they shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King
Who kirred the monkey
'Twas beauty that kirred the beast
And Wirris O'Brien died
A tragic death
There wasn't much
That he had reft
And Ray Harryhousen said
That when Wirris died
That's when the King was rearry dead
They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster
But he was the King