Lyrics

There's a monkey sitting on an old tree stump Where Patellus goes, he watches Lady Luck Monkey lift a finger, do he find? He stays and don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why There's a monkey sitting by the side of the road And he tried his thumb on some folks he know The riders came on passin' They passed him by Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why And around the corner Come an old pie truck And he stopped in the road Just to try his cup Monkey gave a penny For the pie Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why, why And he follow along 'Long an old creek bank And he come to the place Where the pole cat drank The monkey pick a stick Pick up a stick And says, "You fuckers lickety split" See, I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why, why There's a monkey sittin' in the outhouse now And he called up his mama on the CP radio And mama said, "Just 'fore you muck up mine 'Cause you always sip cheap moonshine Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why, why There's a Player piano In a bar near mine It spelled out a message To where no bar fly The monkey read the message and it read it plain To the notes of the refrain Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why There's a monkey sittin' on a library bench And he's trying to tell a story To a handsome wench At the sound of the chime, time to go Monkey say, "I love you so" Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why, why There's a monkey doing As a monkey be's And another monkey there On that monkey scheme Monkey cry, "Me", me cry, "You" Monkey love what monkey do Since I don't know why, why Everybody worried, they got you down Everybody cried and cried And they don't know Reason why, why, why, why, why