Edit 3 for headphones, November 2022, new ways of editing.
Recorded in April, 1969. Released on "Let It Bleed" on December 5, 1969.
Source file of the edit is the song on the 1969 album "Let It Bleed" (Japanese mini lp 2006 remaster uicy-93029).
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Vibraphone & bass: Bill Wyman. Guitars & backing vocals: Keith Richards. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Tambourine: Jimmy Miller.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote "Monkey Man" as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of his movie "Umano Non Umano!" (Human, Not Human!). Recorded in April 1969, the song's introduction features distinctive vibraphone, bass, guitar, and piano. Richards plays main riff and slide guitar solo. Alas, the slide guitar was not done by Brian Jones, he definitely would have done a much better job... Keith way of doing it is a sort of anti climax, sorry... The rest of the song is smashing dynamite... can't get enough of it....
The album charted:
1 - Holland
1 - UK
2 - Australia
2 - Norway
3 - Germany
3 - US
4 - Canada
5 - Sweden
12 - Finland
37 - Sweden
138 - France
So, if you're looking for a nice present for your friend & wonder how you can help Mick Jagger through the winter (or when you think he looks a bit pale around his nose): buy the album!
MONKEY MAN *
(Jagger/Richards)
I'm a fleabit peanut monkey
all my friends are junkies
that's not really true
I'm a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer
what you do?
but I've been bit and I've been tossed around
by every she-rat in this town
have you, babe?
well, I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey woman too
I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
but I pulled on through
yes, I'm a sack of broken eggs
I always have an unmade bed
don't you?
well, I hope we're not too messianic
or a trifle too satanic
we love to play the blues
well I am just a monkey man
I'm glad you are a monkey
monkey woman too, babe!
I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy!
I'm a monkeyyy man! I'm a monkeyyy man!
I'm a monkey! I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy! I'm a monkeyyy!
I'm a ma ma ma ma monkey!
a ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
arf!
I'ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
I'ma ma ma ma ma ma ma monkey!
arf! monkey! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf!
arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf! arf!
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma
(and a lot of drool)
®© UMG
®© ABKCO Music and Records, Inc.
* In the evening, in these times of high prizes for electricity - or, like Catweazle named it, "electrickery" - you may want to turn off all the lights in your room, play this video in full screen & enjoy the light show !
it is free !
