Four Hairy Apes?

One year at Junior High camp (about 1970), a couple of the counselors sang a song about Deacon Jones and his missionary expedition to bring salvation to the apes. A couple times a year I do an internet search to see I can find the song or at least the lyrics, but so far I haven't had any luck. This time I did get a hit on "Four Hairy Apes" in a Folk Song database. Says it was published in "Songs for Swinging Housemothers" (?!) in 1961 but no music and no lyrics.

I figured I would post this on the great World Wide Web, maybe someone that knows the song will find this. Here's bits and pieces of the lyrics as I remember them

Deacon Jones was a religious man
A missionary in a foreign land

And overnight he converted to right
A thousand apes and a squirrel.

(Chorus)
Four hairy apes, just looking for the pearly gates
Saved by the hand of Deacon Jones
Four hairy apes, just looking for the pearly gates
Trodding down that good ol' Gospel road.

But they looked so much like apes
That the people thought they were apes
And with a shout they threw them out
Told them never come back no more

Can you tell me more about this song?