Talk:The Monkeys Have No Tails in Zamboanga

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[edit] Women or Monkeys?

The 1931 version of this song, collected by Robert Winslow Gordon, the monkeys are in Luzon, but it has the lines "The women get no tail (in Zamboanga), For their husbands are in jail. As Zamboanga was a penal colony for the Spanish colonial administration just prior to this song's being written, this may be the earliest version. The monkeys could be the result of bowdlerization of this line, referring to sex, or of combining the two verses. Pustelnik (talk) 12:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)