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One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show Lyrics By Joe Tex

    oh yes
    oh yes
    all right
    you know i got a letter from a friend of mine in new york city the other day
    he said joe i heard you’ve had some trouble with the girls down home
    said you ought to catch a bus and come on up to new york
    said they got enough women up here to go around
    i’m thinking find yourself something
    because people don’t go around stealing loved ones away from them up here in new york
    he said in the letter that things don’t happen like that up here in new york
    oh yes he did
    he said things just don’t happen like that up here in new york
    he said things just don’t happen like that up here in new york
    he said things just don’t happen like that up here in new york
    oh yes
    oh yes he did
    all right

    so i’m saying to you who are listenin’
    if you’ve been unlucky in love
    and lost somebody
    and a voice come to you in the middle of the night and tell you to get up
    listen you better get on up
    if you’re having breakfast one morning
    and a voice come to you at the table
    and say get up
    listen i want you to get on up
    you’re out on the job
    and a voice come to you on the job
    he says get up listen you better get on up
    yeah baby get yourself on up oh yes
    you had better get on up oh yeah
    yup yeah yeah

    you better get on up and walk
    like me and women
    and go somewhere and find your somebody
    that’s what you better do
    cause i’ll tell you one thing
    there’s something that i found out a long time ago
    it took me a long time to find it out
    but i think i got it now
    oh took me a long time to find it out
    but i think i got it now
    oh yes i did
    i found out a long time ago
    one monkey don’t stop no show repeated in background
    oh yes i did
    i found out that one monkey
    just don’t stop no show
    ha ha ha yes i did
    found out that one monkey
    just don’t stop no show
    found out that one monkey just don’t stop no show
    and if you believe it
    you hear you sing one time for me tonight
    i said if if if you believe it
    let me hear you sing it one time for me tonight
    i said if if if

    Artist: Joe Tex

    Year: 1965

    Decade: 60s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 209