Monkey Time chords by Boz Scaggs

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

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Back in '64 I was feelin' 63 the strangest sort of feelin' started creepin' over me
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It's not the kind of feelin' you would easily forget
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My head started burnin' and my knees began to sweat
 FF
I figured I was crazy so I went back to my chair
   FF
But I looked into my mirror and I just wasn't there
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Just then the window shattered and a monkey hit the floor
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Looked like it was time for me to make it to the door
    G+G
But the monkey grabbed my coat and took away my hat
  G+G
And I don't remember what happened after that

Verse:
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Except my friends hear the story about how I left it all behind
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Seems ever since that day I've had that monkey on my mind
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Tried to do my best and make something of my life
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So I cut off all my relatives and then I left my wife
 FF
I tried a hundred cures anything that I could find
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But you know life ain't easy with a monkey on your mind
   G+G
Every time I make my mind up I'm really gonna try
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Well that monkey starts a-jumpin' and looks me in the eye
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Oh dig the monkey

Instrumental:

FF  C majorC  G+G

Verse:

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Well somethin' exploded  when the monkey got loaded  and we went out on the town
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The monkey got so drunk  he started gettin' funky  it was hard to hold the poor boy down
      FF
He did the Boogaloo the Shoogaloo the Eskimo the Hindu he even made the teenage queen
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Oh the joint started leapin' everybody was a-freakin' the greatest show they'd ever seen
   G+G
Then someone started screamin' and I woke up from my dreamin' tried to get myself realigned
  C majorC
But it's all right and it all comes easy when you got a monkey on your mind

Outro:

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Dig the monkey  oh one more time  dig the monkey