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29 May 01 - 10:42 AM (#472272) Subject: You're Gonna Look Like A Monkey... From: Fortunato You're Gonna Look Like a Monkey When You Get Old I'm rearranging this song and I don't know where I learned it. Can you folks tell me the lyrics you know or have recorded? I don't think I have them all and there's probably lots of versions. Help! Chance |
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29 May 01 - 12:13 PM (#472341) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: Trapper Can't find the lyrics, but a Google search produces that it was written by Boozoo Chavis, also recorded by Hammie Nixon. - Al |
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29 May 01 - 01:13 PM (#472395) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: Fortunato Thanks, Al. I know some of them, but I'll hang this out there, SOME MUDCATTER must know them! regards, chance |
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29 May 01 - 04:37 PM (#472527) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: RWilhelm Micheal Hurley recorded it on his CD "Snockgrass". If no one else has them I'll post Hurley's version though he tends to do some serious rearranging himself. |
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29 May 01 - 10:29 PM (#472762) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: GUEST,fortunato Many thanks, Earl, I'll be glad for the lyrics he does. regards, chance shiver |
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30 May 01 - 08:40 AM (#472932) Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE GONNA LOOK LIKE A MONKEY WHEN ... From: RWilhelm Ok, Here is what Michael Hurley sings. Most verses are the same as the first with only the middle two lines changing. YOU'RE GONNA LOOK LIKE A MONKEY WHEN YOU GET OLD
You're gonna look like a monkey when you get old
I can tell by eyes
I can tell 'bout your knees
I can tell by your shape
Nobody stays a monkey but you when you get old
You're gonna look like a monkey when you get old |
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30 May 01 - 12:17 PM (#473087) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: Fortunato Thanks, thanks, alot, I'd forgotten the best verse, "lovin' a monkey to death" I appreciate it, Earl. Regards, Chance Shiver |
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30 May 01 - 03:13 PM (#473223) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: GUEST,jugband scott I have a version of this song recorded by Roy Harvey ( of Charlie Poole's North Carolina Ramblers) in 1930 or 1931 shortly after Poole died. I'll see if I can make out the lyrics and post them. This one is always a crowd pleaser. Scott |
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19 Nov 09 - 10:59 AM (#2769205) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like A Monkey From: GUEST,Lester Seems like this is the kind of a song that you just make up verses as you go along. I've heard a few that I don't see in here. |
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20 Nov 09 - 01:23 PM (#2769913) Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE BOUND TO LOOK LIKE A MONKEY WHEN.. From: Jim Dixon This seems to be the original recording. You can hear it at RedHotJazz.com: YOU'RE BOUND TO LOOK LIKE A MONKEY WHEN YOU GET OLD (Clarence Williams, Alex Hill, 1930) (As recorded by Clarence Williams' Novelty Band, Okeh 8798, May-22-1930.) 1. I can tell by your hair You got monkey in you somewhere— CHORUS: And you're bound to look like a monkey when you get old*. When you get old*, when you get old*, You're bound to look like a monkey when you get old*. 2. I can tell by your feet You don't get enough to eat— 3. I can tell by your hand Your pa was a monkey man— 4. I can tell by your jaw Your pa was your pa— [*Sometimes he sings "grow old" instead of "get old".] The Online 78-rpm Discography Project also lists: YOU'RE BOUND TO LOOK LIKE A MONKEY Roy Harvey & Jesse Johnson, 1931 Birmingham Serenaders, 1935 Milton Brown & His Brownies, 1935 Jimmie Gordon V-vop Band, 1937 Bob Crosby's Bobcats, 1940 YOU GONNA LOOK LIKE A MONKEY WHEN YOU GET OLD Robert Hill, 1936. BOUND TO LOOK LIKE MONKEY Jimmie Revard & Oklahoma Playboys, 1937 |
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31 Aug 10 - 02:09 PM (#2976821) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like a Monkey From: GUEST http://www.nutsie.com/song/You%27re%20Gonna%20Look%20Like%20a%20Monkey/4535109&album_id=4535097 |
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31 Aug 10 - 03:17 PM (#2976869) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like a Monkey From: GUEST,Goodnight Gracie Bob Carlin and Paul Brown recorded the Clarence Williams version on Bob's The Boys from North Carolina CD. |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:43 PM (#2977716) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like a Monkey From: MoorleyMan There's a great new recording of the song by Sid Selvidge on his latest album I Should Be Blue (Archer Records label). Check it out! |
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06 Sep 10 - 09:39 PM (#2981279) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Gonna Look Just Like a Monkey From: Jim Dixon A few more couplets from Hank Penny's recording of YOU'RE BOUND TO LOOK LIKE A MONKEY: I can tell by your face You belong to the monkey race.... I can tell by your knees You been a-climbin' these coconut trees.... I can tell by your jaw That a monkey was your pa.... I can tell by your skin That a monkey was your frien'.... I can tell by your hands That you've got monkey glands.... I can tell by your nails That your folks hung by their tails.... |
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06 Sep 10 - 09:52 PM (#2981284) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Bound to Look like a Monkey From: Jim Dixon Here's the version by Milton Brown and His Brownies. |
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15 Feb 11 - 05:22 PM (#3095970) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Bound to Look like a Monkey From: GUEST,HERE ARE THE LYRICS I KNOW.... I cannot remember where I learned this song, but I sang this tune to my children when they were very young and was one of their favorites (as well as mine), and here goes: I can tell by your smell that you've been playing with a monkey's tail, and I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. When you get old, when you get old, yes, I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. I can tell by you knees that you've been playing in the coconut trees, yes I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. When you get old, when you get old. Yes I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. I can tell my your head that you've been sleeping in a monkey's bed, Yes I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. When you get old, when you get old Yes I know that you'll be a monkey when you get old. |
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06 Mar 11 - 09:56 PM (#3108591) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Bound to Look like a Monkey From: GUEST My husband remembers: I can tell by your knees you been climbing coconut trees. I can tell by your thighs you been eating coconut pies. |
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04 Jan 13 - 11:09 AM (#3461244) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Bound to Look like a Monkey From: GUEST I can tell by your knees You been swinging in the trees And you're bound to have Some monkey blood somewhere |
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04 Jan 13 - 05:59 PM (#3461431) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: You're Bound to Look like a Monkey From: GUEST,john I can tell by your skin, that the monkey was your kin, yess your'e bould to look like a monkey when you grow old, when you grow old, when you grow old, yes your'e bound to look like a monkey when you grow old. I can tell by your face, that the monkey was your race, yes your'e bound to look like a monkey when you grow old,etc for refrain, as remembered from a 45 record from 1957. |