This obviously occured due to a silly mix up involving fonts and the translation of the lyrics from the original German. The word in the third line of the chorus was incorrectly interpreted as being "bassoon", a character in the middle of the word assumed to be double "S", as in the word "straße". Clearly the correct translation should have been baboon. This is obvious when taken in context with the fourth line of the chorus where, once again due to an inappropriate font, the word APES has been interpreted as PIPES.

As in many folk songs, the activity being described in this chorus is better not investigated.