They shot him down
They shot him down

They thought he was a monster
But he was the King


They came to his island
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 all
He was the King


And he loved the woman
He loved the way she looked

And she wouldn't stop screaming

But he loved the woman

And he fought a Tyrannosaurus Rex
And it was a bloody battle
But he fought it for his woman


And he climbed up a mountain
And he looked around

Some kind of forest
With all these dinosaurs


And he stripped his woman
He stripped her bare
But there was a pterodactyl

There!

And then a hero

Came and took his woman
And they fell off the mountain
Into some water


And then later
He came looking 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 loose
And everyone fled in terror
And he was looking for her


And he overtook a train
And he was looking in the street

And then he found her in her apartment

And he climbed up the Empire State building

It was like a phallic symbol
And he took his woman
To the top of that towering temple


And he climbed up and looked around
Some kind of city

With all those skyscrapers
And all the cars


Just him and his screaming woman
And they were finally alone
He loved his woman

You could see it in his eyes
His great big eyes


He loved his woman
From the moment that he saw her
He was all choked up inside

But when the airplanes came

He was soon to die
But he hung on long enough to set his woman down
And make sure that she was safe

And as the bullets pierced

He looked at her so sincere
Before he fell
Because he loved his woman

And they shot him down

They thought he was a monster
But he was the King

Who killed the monkey
'Twas beauty that killed the beast


And Willis O'Brien died
A tragic death
There wasn't much
That he had left


And Ray Harryhousen said
That when Willis died
That's when the King was really dead

They shot him down
They shot him down
They thought he was a monster

But he was the King