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The lyrics speak for themselves. (And yes, this really happened.)
Also, this is officially the longest Banäna Deäthmüffins song in our repertoire to date. Which means yr getting maximum value for money, we think.
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THE WORDS (with pretentious Roman numerals!)
PART I
This is a story about a man and his monkey
and the Agricultural Fisheries Department Fuzz
The old man was something like 90 years old
I don’t know how old the monkey was
The old man ran a little shop outside of town
Like most old men he was lonely, beat and tired
Then the monkey turned up at his doorstep one day
The old man took one look at him and said, “Yr hired”
The monkey started off doing errands and odd jobs
sweeping the floor, mowing the lawn, making the tea
minding the cash register now and then
keeping wolverines off the property
Naturally they were soon the best of friends
And for three years everyone knew it, and it was okay
Then a government official said “Hey! That’s a monkey!”
He took action, and then he took the old man’s monkey away
Chorus:
That was the day the government came
and took the old man’s monkey away
That was the day the government came
and took the old man’s monkey away
PART II
Apparently befriending monkeys is illegal
unless you have a license and you keep ‘em on a leash
Whoever heard of a license to love someone?
(Outside of the state of Utah, I mean – sheesh!)
The Agricultural Fisheries Department man said
“Sorry, man – that’s the law, so the monkey goes!”
The man broke the law, but the law broke his heart
He had to look into his best friend’s monkey eyes and say “Adios”
But the Agricultural Fisheries Department had a problem
They wanted to set the monkey free into the wild
The problem was the monkey was a civilized monkey
He’d be helpless as a newborn monkey child
So they put him in a cell with a bigger monkey
Because they figured, “Hey, monkey see, monkey do”
But all the bigger monkey knew how to do
Was sit in a cell like an animal in the zoo
[Chorus]
[Break]
PART III
The old man didn’t sleep for two months after that
He didn’t eat much and he was crippled by the blues
Because the best friend he ever had was taken away
by some nitwit government stooge
Then one day a TV camera showed up at his door
The lady with the mike said, “What about the monkey?”
So he told her the story and it brought tears to her eyes
when he said: “I miss him so much I feel like a strung-out junkie”
Well the word got out and the story was everywhere
and everyone who heard it said, “Man, that ain’t cool”
Someone took a poll and 95% of respondents*
responded “Let the monkey go, fool!”
The old man’s case made it to the Supreme Court
It only took two days for the judges to make their analysis
“The guy’s 90 years old and the stooge is a nitwit
Let the monkey go, fool! CASE DISMISSED!”
[Chorus]
EPILOGUE
The monkey got parole, went home and got his job back
The old man got a license and a leash to comply with the law
And two old friends were back together again
They didn’t beat the system but at least they fought to a draw
A lot of people who heard about the verdict
said they found a renewed sense of hope for the world that day
Because the government may be capable of some stupid shit
But they can’t always take yr monkey away!
[Chorus]
*The other 5% worked for the government
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Lyrics by dEFROG
Music by Banäna Deäthmüffins
©2015 Terribly Frog Music. Derechos Reservados!
================================================
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Case dismissed,
This is dF
The lyrics speak for themselves. (And yes, this really happened.)
Also, this is officially the longest Banäna Deäthmüffins song in our repertoire to date. Which means yr getting maximum value for money, we think.
=====================================
THE WORDS (with pretentious Roman numerals!)
PART I
This is a story about a man and his monkey
and the Agricultural Fisheries Department Fuzz
The old man was something like 90 years old
I don’t know how old the monkey was
The old man ran a little shop outside of town
Like most old men he was lonely, beat and tired
Then the monkey turned up at his doorstep one day
The old man took one look at him and said, “Yr hired”
The monkey started off doing errands and odd jobs
sweeping the floor, mowing the lawn, making the tea
minding the cash register now and then
keeping wolverines off the property
Naturally they were soon the best of friends
And for three years everyone knew it, and it was okay
Then a government official said “Hey! That’s a monkey!”
He took action, and then he took the old man’s monkey away
Chorus:
That was the day the government came
and took the old man’s monkey away
That was the day the government came
and took the old man’s monkey away
PART II
Apparently befriending monkeys is illegal
unless you have a license and you keep ‘em on a leash
Whoever heard of a license to love someone?
(Outside of the state of Utah, I mean – sheesh!)
The Agricultural Fisheries Department man said
“Sorry, man – that’s the law, so the monkey goes!”
The man broke the law, but the law broke his heart
He had to look into his best friend’s monkey eyes and say “Adios”
But the Agricultural Fisheries Department had a problem
They wanted to set the monkey free into the wild
The problem was the monkey was a civilized monkey
He’d be helpless as a newborn monkey child
So they put him in a cell with a bigger monkey
Because they figured, “Hey, monkey see, monkey do”
But all the bigger monkey knew how to do
Was sit in a cell like an animal in the zoo
[Chorus]
[Break]
PART III
The old man didn’t sleep for two months after that
He didn’t eat much and he was crippled by the blues
Because the best friend he ever had was taken away
by some nitwit government stooge
Then one day a TV camera showed up at his door
The lady with the mike said, “What about the monkey?”
So he told her the story and it brought tears to her eyes
when he said: “I miss him so much I feel like a strung-out junkie”
Well the word got out and the story was everywhere
and everyone who heard it said, “Man, that ain’t cool”
Someone took a poll and 95% of respondents*
responded “Let the monkey go, fool!”
The old man’s case made it to the Supreme Court
It only took two days for the judges to make their analysis
“The guy’s 90 years old and the stooge is a nitwit
Let the monkey go, fool! CASE DISMISSED!”
[Chorus]
EPILOGUE
The monkey got parole, went home and got his job back
The old man got a license and a leash to comply with the law
And two old friends were back together again
They didn’t beat the system but at least they fought to a draw
A lot of people who heard about the verdict
said they found a renewed sense of hope for the world that day
Because the government may be capable of some stupid shit
But they can’t always take yr monkey away!
[Chorus]
*The other 5% worked for the government
================================================
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Lyrics by dEFROG
Music by Banäna Deäthmüffins
©2015 Terribly Frog Music. Derechos Reservados!
================================================
Like this song? Why not down it and other fine lo-fi tracks from the official Banäna Deäthmüffins page on Soundcloud?
Also, be the first to like us on Facebook.
Case dismissed,
This is dF
