Monkey Time

C
Back in '64 I was feelin' 63 the 
strangest sort of feelin' started 
creepin' over me
     C
It's not the kind of feelin' you 
would easily forget
   C
My head started burnin' and my knees
 began to sweat
  F
I figured I was crazy  so I went 
back to my chair
      F
But I looked into my mirror and I 
just wasn't there
     C
Just then the window shattered and a
 monkey hit the floor
C
Looked like it was time for me to 
make it to the door
        G
But the monkey grabbed my coat and 
took away my hat
    G
And I don't remember what happened 
after that

[Verse]
           C
Except my friends hear the story 
about how I left it all behind
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      C
Seems ever since that day I've had 
that monkey on my mind
C
Tried to do my best and make 
something of my life
     C
So I cut off all my relatives and 
then I left my wife
  F
I tried a hundred cures anything 
that I could find
        C
But you know life ain't easy  with a
 monkey on your mind
      G
Every time I make my mind up I'm 
really gonna try
          C
Well that monkey starts a-jumpin' 
and looks me in the eye
    C
Oh dig the monkey

[Instrumental]

F   C   G

[Verse]

     C
Well somethin'  exploded   when the 
monkey got loaded   and we went out 
on the town
    C
The monkey got so drunk   he started
 gettin'  funky   it was hard to 
hold the poor boy down
           F
He did the Boogaloo  the Shoogaloo  
the Eskimo the Hindu  he even made 
the teenage queen
       C
Oh the joint started leapin' 
everybody was a-freakin'  the 
greatest show they'd ever seen
     G
Then someone started screamin' and I
 woke up from my dreamin'  tried to 
get myself realigned
    C
But it's all right and it all comes 
easy  when you got a monkey on your 
mind

[Otro]

C
Dig the monkey   oh one more time   
dig the monkey