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One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

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...

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One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

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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

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... [fade]

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