Richard Field on Management and Information Science
My theory is that every artist has a song with the word "monkey" in the title or lyric. Here's a sample.
If you send me your artist/song/lyric I'll add it to the table. Richard.Field@ualberta.ca
Also: Does anyone know the highest charting song with the word "monkey" in the title?
| Artist | Song or Album Title | Lyric |
| Bare Naked Ladies | If I had a Million Dollars | "Haven't you always wanted a monkey?" |
| Bare Naked Ladies | Another Postcard | "You can't imagine so many monkeys in the daily mail" |
| Beatles, The | Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey |
"Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey" |
| Dave Matthews Band | Proudest Monkey | "Now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen" |
| Divinyls, The | Monkey Grip (Album Title) | |
| Elvis Presley | Too Much Monkey Business | "Too much monkey business for me to be involved in" |
| Foo Fighters | Monkey Wrench | "I'll Never Be Your Monkey Wrench " |
| Jethro Tull | Steel Monkey Bungle in the Jungle |
"I'm a monkey puzzle and the lid is on" "Walking through forests of palm tree apartments, scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents" |
| Leonard Cohen | First We Take Manhattan | "I loved those presents that you sent me, the monkey, the plywood violin" |
| Monkees, The | Hey Hey We're the Monkees | "Hey Hey we're the monkees" |
| Specials, The | Monkey Man | "This one's for the bouncers. Big, big Monkey Man" |
| Rolling Stones | Monkey Man | "I'm a fleabit peanut monkey" |
| Traditional | The Monkey's Wedding | "The monkey married the baboon's sister" |
| George Michael | Monkey | "Why can't you do it? Why can't you set your monkey free?" |
| Counting Crows | Monkey | "All dressed up, No place to go, Hey monkey, when you gonna show your face around me?" |
| Coal Chamber Peter Gabriel |
Shock the Monkey | "don't you know you gotta shock the monkey" |
| Black Eyed Peas | Monkey Business (Album Title) | |
| Pixies, The | Monkey Gone to Heaven | "this monkey's gone to heaven" |
| Beastie Boys | Brass Monkey | "drink brass monkey -- here's how you feel" |
| Robbie Williams | Me and My Monkey | "There was me and my monkey ... "He said 'Son, you ever been to Vegas?'" |
| Gary Glitter | The Clapping Song | "The monkey chewed tobacco on the street car line" |
| Bonobo | Dial M for Monkey (Album Title) | |
| Steely Dan | Your Gold Teeth -- I am told this is a cover song of "Goin' to
Chicago", sung by Jimmie Rushing in the 1930s with the Count Basie
Orchestra.
Monkey in Your Soul (from Pretzel Logic) |
"There ain't nothing in Chicago for a monkey woman to do"
This is an old blues lyric. It is used in dozens of blues songs. One of them was "Monkey Man Blues" by Ida Cox.
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| Three Dog Night | Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues) | "Play somethin' sweet and make it funky Just let me lay back and grin like a monkey" |
| XTC | The Smartest Monkeys | "We're the smartest monkeys" |
| Headstones, The Traveling Wilburys |
Tweeter and the Monkey Man | "Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash" |
| Smokey Robinson and the Miracles | Mickey's Monkey | |
| A Perfect Circle | Weak and Powerless | "Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China" |
| Tokens, The | Monkey Vendor | |
| Big Bad Voodoo Daddy | I Wanna Be Like You | "And be just like the other men I'm tired of monkeying around" |
| Terence Trent d'Arby | Wishing Well | "Hugging like a monkey see, Monkey do." |
| Widespread Panic | Sleepy Monkey | "I woke to the noise of monkey's knuckles Knocking loud on my door." |
| Bob Dylan (covered by Grateful Dead, The) |
Monkey and the Engineer | "Once upon a time there was an engineer. Drove a locomotive both far and near. Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool Watching everything the engineer would move" |
| Hot Chip | Over and Over | "Over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature symbol" |
| Dandy Warhols | Welcome to the Monkey House (Album Title) | |
| Low | Monkey | "Tonight you will be mine Tonight the monkey dies" |
| Eurythmics | Missionary Man | "There was a woman in the jungle, And a monkey on a tree" |
| Debbie Reynolds | Aba Daba Honeymoon | "said the monkey to the chimp" |
| Skid Row | Monkey Business | "To me it's just monkey business" |
| Coney Hatch | Monkey Bars | "We are playing in the monkey bars
Sittin' by the streets just countin' the cars" |
| Chuck Berry | Too Much Monkey Business | |
| Jonathan Coulton | Code Monkey My Monkey The album "Smoking Monkey" De-evolving SkullCrusher Mountain (?) |
"Code Monkey think maybe manager want
to write god damned login page himself" "I’m sick or your smile, your nothing to say. Your monkey, your middle" (Overhead) "There's a monkey in the future for you, and there's nothing modern science can do" (De-evolving) "I made this half-pony half-monkey monster to please you" |
| alicedean | best friend | "I got a monkey, he lives on my back," |
| Simon & Garfunkle | At the Zoo | "The monkeys stand for honesty, giraffes are insincere..." |
| Warren Zevon | Genius | "I've got a bitter pot of je ne se qua, guess what, I'm stirring it
with a monkey's paw." |
| Tom Waits | Mysery is the River of the World | "The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his
tail..." |
| Bette Midler | One Monkey Don't Stop No Show | |
| Boozoo Chavez | Who Stole My Monkey | |
| Squirrel Nut Zippers | Trou Macacq | "This is the story of the trou macacq, the pine box derby, the monkey track" |
| Major Lance | Monkey Time | "Well, you get yours, cause-a I got mine For the Monkey Time (Monkey Time)" |
| Aerosmith | Monkey On My Back | |
| Rush | The Main Monkey Business | |
| White Zombie | Grease Paint and Monkey Brains | |
| Amy Winehouse | Monkey Man | |
| Elvis Costello & The Imposters | Monkey to Man | |
| Too Short | Shake That Monkey | |
| Tubes, The | Monkey Time (cover on 1983's "Outside Inside") | |
| Oingo Boingo | Album is "Dark at the End of the Tunnel" -- Song is "Right to Know" | "No one knows what's on his mind except him and his monkey" |
| Mark Knopffler | Save the organ grinder, kill the monkey | |
| Marty Crawfitt | Be nice to my monkey | |
| Ten Years After | A space in time | "Got no monkey on my back" |
| Delbert Mclinton | "When you turn a man into a monkey, that monkey's gonna monkey around" | |
| Genesis | Tonight, Tonight, Tonight | "I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey, but its alright Like a load on your back that you cant see, ooh but its alright Try to shake it loose, cut it free, just let it go, get it away from me." |
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monkey | |
| Tool | right in two | |
| Coal chamber | shock the monkey | |
| Ren and stimpy | I want to be a monkey | |
| TLC | shock dat monkey | |
| Elliot smith | new monkey | |
| Ida Cox | Monkey Man Blues | |
| Baltimora | Tarzan Boy |
Hide and seek We play along while rushing cross the forest Monkey business on a sunny afternoon |
| Chagall Buevara (1991) | Monkey Grinder | Collar goes tight Fat man's cranking And the monkey's reeled in Don't he look a little blue? |
| Mad Tea Party | On the album...73% Post-Consumer Novelty (2004) | "Like a monkey likes coconuts" |
| Toots and the Maytals | Monkey Man | This is the original reggae version covered by Amy Winehouse, No Doubt and many others. |
| The Kills | Monkey 23 | |
| Dave Bartholemew | The Monkey (Speaks His Mind) | |
| Menomena | Monkeys Back | |
| Minus the Bear | Monkey! Knife! Fight! | |
| Saves the Day | Monkey (Will Bite) | |
| Baby Huey | Monkeyman | |
| Collins and Harlan (1907) | In Monkey Land | |
| Derrick Harriot | Monkey Ska | |
| Devo | Go Monkey Go | |
| The Five Du-Tones | Monkey See Monkey Do | |
| The Flares | The Monkey Walk | |
| Gino Washington | Come Monkey With Me | |
| The Golden Catalinas | Can Your Monkey Do the Dog? | |
| Jerry Warren | Monkey Walk | |
| Joe Johnston | Monkey Versus Robot | |
| The Persians | Let's Monkey Again | |
| The Pygmies | Don't Monkey With Tarzan | |
| The Tempos | Monkey Doo | |
| Bad Haggis | Monkey Tree | |
| Sage | Monkey Bars | Different from the Coney Hatch song |
| Yes Yes Juliette | Monkey God | |
| Klute | Monkey Say Monkey Do | |
| Usherhouse | Monkey Strange | |
| Traveling Wilburys | Tweeter and the Monkey Man | |
| Warren Zevon | "Leave My Monkey Alone" | Chorus: Leave my monkey alone ... |
| The Pixies | "This Monkey's Gone to Heaven" | |
For a website about old-time monkey songs, see:
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-10/thismonth/featurea.asp
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2003-10/thismonth/featureb.asp
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