Monkey Time-Boz Scaggs

[ti:Monkey Time] [ar:Boz Scaggs] [al:Boz Scaggs And The Band Bonus] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.00]Back in '64 I was feeling 63 [00:04.21]The strangest sort of feeling [00:05.59]Started creeping over me [00:07.46]It's not the kind of feeling [00:08.85]You would easily forget [00:10.40] [00:11.03]My head started burning [00:12.29]And my knees began to sweat [00:14.30]I figured I was crazy [00:15.66]So I went back to my chair [00:17.61]But I looked into my mirror [00:19.04]And I just wasn't there [00:20.75]Just then the window shattered [00:22.64]And a monkey hit the floor [00:24.45]Looked like it was time for me [00:26.05]To make it to the door [00:27.66]But the monkey grabbed my coat [00:29.06]And took away my hat [00:30.86] [00:31.39]And I don't remember [00:32.64]What happened after that [00:34.30]Except my friends hear the story [00:36.09]About how I left it all behind [00:37.76]Seems ever since that day [00:39.28]I've had that monkey on my mind [00:41.57]Tried to do my best [00:42.71]And make something of my life [00:44.71] [00:48.13]So I cut off all my relatives [00:50.49]And then I left my wife [00:51.78] [00:55.03]I've tried a hundred cures [00:56.84]Anything that I could find [00:58.71] [01:01.96]But you know life ain't easy [01:03.43]With a monkey on your mind [01:05.67] [01:08.78]Every time I make my mind up [01:10.49]I'm really gonna try [01:12.66] [01:15.65]Well that monkey starts jumping [01:17.71]And looks me in the eye [01:19.55] [01:22.56]Oh dig the monkey [01:24.17] [02:03.98]Well something exploded [02:05.71]When the monkey got loaded [02:07.56]And we went out on the town [02:09.98] [02:11.23]The monkey got so drunk [02:12.46]He started getting funky [02:14.63]It was hard to hold the poor boy down [02:16.85] [02:17.74]He did the boogaloo the shoogaloo [02:19.69]The Eskimo the Hindu [02:21.30]Even made the teenage queen [02:23.70] [02:24.67]Oh the joint started leaping [02:26.37]Everybody was a-freaking [02:27.96]The greatest show they'd ever seen [02:30.44] [02:31.51]Then someone started screaming [02:33.14]And I woke up from my dreaming [02:35.50]Tried to get myself realigned [02:37.28] [02:38.38]But it's all right [02:39.92]And it all comes easy [02:41.84]When you got a monkey on your mind [02:44.39] [02:45.53]Dig the monkey [02:47.11] [02:48.70]Oh one more time [02:51.31] [02:52.46]Dig the monkey [02:54.03]Monkey Time - Boz Scaggs [02:55.27]