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From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Subject: CRD: Monkey Man (Rolling Stones)
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I`m a fleabit peanut monkey. All my friends are junkies.That's not really true.
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I`m a cold Italian pizza.I could use a lemmon squeezer. What you do?
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I`ve been bitten, I`ve been tossed around
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by every she-rat in this town. Have you, babe?
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Well, I am just a monkey man. I`m glad you are a monkey woman, too.
I was bitten by a boar.
I was gouged and I was gored.
But I pulled on through.
I am a sack of broken eggs.
I always have an unmade bed.
Don't you?
Well, I hope we're not too messianic or a trifle too santanic.
We love to play the blues.
I am just a monkey man.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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justin Average |
#1 by justin tompkins at Jun 11, 1971 at 4:18 PM EST |
| Monkeys are funny. | |
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nick Wanna Be |
#2 by nick at Jul 18, 1980 at 7:21 AM EST |
| I agree that's its not intended to be about the theory of evolution but there are the references to the primitive animal nature in us. And I love the line, "And I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman too." | |
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Kyle Wanna Be |
#3 by Kyle Kom at Mar 19, 1983 at 12:01 AM EST |
| I think this song is Mick and the Stones getting in touch with their primitive roots. The "Monkey Man" that Mick identifies himself here as calls to mind Darwin's theory of evolution and where we came from. The line "I was bitten by a boar, I was gouged and I was gored, But I pulled on through" illustrates the harsh evolutionary struggle and the survival of the fittest. Mostly this song reminds us of our own primal urges and the animal in us all. One of my favourite Stones tunes of all time. | |
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Simon (Si) Lead Player |
#4 by Simon (Si) Brown at Apr 29, 1994 at 2:19 PM EST |
| as they say in that one beer commercial "brilliant!" | |
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Curtis Rhythm Player |
#5 by Curtis Lee at Aug 17, 1997 at 8:29 PM EST |
| Heard (not saying this is meaning) but a bad acid trip. | |
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hamadi Wanna Be |
#6 by hamadi alameddine at Aug 21, 1999 at 9:06 AM EST |
| Songofish got my intended meaning. It's not about Darwin or the theory of evolution specifically, but it's definitely about our animal nature. I just said it calls to mind our primitive ancestry, which it does, even in the title of the song. And the amount of drug consumption that Keith has lived through calls to mind the survival of the fittest, which seems to be proudly illustrated throughout this song. The narrator has basically triumphed over a lot of nature's perils(bitten by she-rats and boars, gouged and gored) and has "pulled through" despite it all. It comes across as the Stones celebrating their survival through all the sex, drugs and jail-time of the 60's. Of course, the 70's would be more of the same for them. Unfortunately Brian Jones would die soon after this record(July 1969), but it's a miracle that none of the other Stones died during the next decade, when rock stars seemed to be dropping left and right(Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, etc.). | |
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Mike Average |
#7 by Mike Dawgg at Mar 14, 2004 at 2:56 AM EST |
| The live version of this on 'Live Licks' is simply amazing. | |
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