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Swing in this tree
Oh I am bounce around so well
Branch to branch,
limb to limb you see
All in a day's dream
I'm stuck
Like the other monkeys here
I am a humble monkey
Sitting up in here again
But then came the day
I climbed out of these safe limbs
Ventured away
Walking tall, head high up and singing
I went to the city
Car horns, corners and the gritty
Now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Then comes the day
Staring at myself I turn to question me
I wonder do I want the simple, simple life that I once lived in well
Oh things were quiet then
In a way they were the better days
But now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do
Oh I am bounce around so well
Branch to branch,
limb to limb you see
All in a day's dream
I'm stuck
Like the other monkeys here
I am a humble monkey
Sitting up in here again
But then came the day
I climbed out of these safe limbs
Ventured away
Walking tall, head high up and singing
I went to the city
Car horns, corners and the gritty
Now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Then comes the day
Staring at myself I turn to question me
I wonder do I want the simple, simple life that I once lived in well
Oh things were quiet then
In a way they were the better days
But now I am the proudest monkey you've ever seen
Monkey see, monkey do
Monkey see, monkey do
Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae
Track duration: 09:11
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Before DMB played Proudest Monkey on 6.19.96, Dave had said this about the song.
So sometimes when you watch CNN
If you sit in front of CNN and watch all that stuff on CNN
The Headline News maybe
Or you watch Party Of Five
Or you watch Friends
Or you watch bombs blowin' up in Baghdad
Or you watch people shootin' each other
Or people going hungry
'Cause other people eat too much and drink too much
People standing on top of the White House
There's people standing up on Capitol Hill
I don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats
I'm not telling you anything
They stand up there
Sound like they know something but
They all still wake up in the morning, drink a cup of coffee, and take a shit
They ain't better than I am
And they dance around a problem
Say this
Talk about the economic implications
But their grandfather, great-great grandfather was just like my
great-great grandfather
Just a bunch of monkeys swingin' up in trees, shittin' in the woods
If someone tells you they know what's going on
Immediately question them, yeah
Especially a government, I don't care where the government is
It could be in Moscow, it could be in Washington, D.C.
Don't just think we got it made
Just remember that we're all monkeys
And that's the first thing that keep us together
So it's obvious that at different times the song meant different things, even to the man who wrote the song. That is the beauty of music.
Secondly, you're a pompous asshole! I didn't know you were the person who wrote the song, or had any more information than any of us have on the song itself. Please refrain from making anymore comments about DMB, thank you.
simple as that.
CURIOUS MONKEY
"so this song i used to think this song was kind of about uh, how we used to be bent over uh...like monkey's at least our grandparents were a long time ago. cuz although whether or not you believe it or don't believe it i like the idea that we come from trees or monkey's more than i do from some chick and some dude.
but then it sort of turned into maybe kind of a song about this band too cuz we went from good ol virgina then we start runnin around the place."