The Monkey

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Elvis Costello

Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus, 25 August 1954) is an English singer-songwriter. He began his career as part of London's pub rock scene in the early 1970s and later became associated with the first wave of the British punk/New Wave movement of the mid-to-late 1970s. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader than that of most popular songs. His music has drawn on many diverse genres; one critic described him as a "pop encyclopaedia", able to "reinvent the past in his own image". more »

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2004

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The monkey speaks his mind 

And three monkeys sat in a coconut tree 
Discussing things as they are said to be 
Said one to other now listen, you two 
"There's a certain rumor that just can't be true 
That man descended from our noble race 
Why, the very idea is a big disgrace, yea"
No monkey ever deserted his wife 
Starved her baby and ruined her life 

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind 

And you've never known a mother monk 
To leave her babies with others to bunk 
And passed them on from one to another 
'Til they scarcely knew which was their mother 
Yea, the monkey speak his mind 

And another thing you will never see 
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree 
And let all the coconuts go to waste 
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste 
Why, if I put a fence around this tree 
Starvation would force you to steal from me 

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind 

Here's another thing a monkey won't do 
Go out on a night and get all in a stew 
Or use a gun or a club or a knife 
And take another monkey's life 
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum 
But, brothers, from us he did not come 

Yea, the monkey speaks his mind 
Yea, now the monkey speaks his mind

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