Monkey Time

Back in '64 I was feeling 63

The strangest sort of feeling

Started creeping over me

It's not the kind of feeling

You would easily forget

My head started burning

And my knees began to sweat

I figured I was crazy

So I went back to my chair

But I looked into my mirror

And I just wasn't there

Just then the window shattered

And a monkey hit the floor

Looked like it was time for me

To make it to the door

But the monkey grabbed my coat

And took away my hat

And I don't remember

What happened after that

Except my friends hear the story

About how I left it all behind

Seems ever since that day

I've had that monkey on my mind

Tried to do my best

And make something of my life

So I cut off all my relatives

And then I left my wife

I've tried a hundred cures

Anything that I could find

But you know life ain't easy

With a monkey on your mind

Every time I make my mind up

I'm really gonna try

Well that monkey starts jumping

And looks me in the eye

Oh dig the monkey

Well something exploded

When the monkey got loaded

And we went out on the town

The monkey got so drunk

He started getting funky

It was hard to hold the poor boy down

He did the boogaloo the shoogaloo

The Eskimo the Hindu

Even made the teenage queen

Oh the joint started leaping

Everybody was a-freaking

The greatest show they'd ever seen

Then someone started screaming

And I woke up from my dreaming

Tried to get myself realigned

But it's all right

And it all comes easy

When you got a monkey on your mind

Dig the monkey

Oh one more time

Dig the monkey

Monkey Time - Boz Scaggs