Quite a lapse of time since you posted, but I just found yours...hope you're still listening.

Mysteriously, Josh White did a brief snatch of song using the Godalmighty made a monkey lyrics, on either his first or second Decca LP circa 1950.

But being Josh and as eclectic as he was, it's a tossup whether Ellison got the song from him or he read it in Ellison and put a tune to it.

Minky little tune, too. Deserves to be a complete song. Hmmm.

Bob