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Artist: Vic Chesnutt
Canonical path: /vic-chesnutt/mighty-monkey
Related lyric paths: 6
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Mighty Monkey
Read Mighty Monkey lyrics by Vic Chesnutt on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Mighty Monkey
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Smell the mighty monkey
Trainer is a junky
And the tightrope walker
Has one foot in the grave
Invited to inspect what is a trainwreck
You don't even have to check
It's evident
So evident
Dancing bear is full of worms
See the puny pachyderms
Lion tamer wrestles with
Ghosts from his past
Invited to inspect
What is a trainwreck
You don't even have to check
It's evident
So evident
Clowns have herpes
And hepatitis c
The chick who runs the pony ride
We call her catherine the gross
Invited to inspect what is a trainwreck
You don't even have to check
It's evident
So evident
Alcoholic acrobats
Emcee smokes crack
Last week the human cannonball
Blew his brains out
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Vic Chesnutt performs "Mighty Monkey", and this lyric page sits inside the Vic Chesnutt catalog on LyroVerse.
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