Just a Monkey

Verse 1

Well I grew up on cartoons simple and plain

Huckleberry Hound and a cowboy train

Now my nephew turns the channel to a monkey in a hat

And a man with a yellow brim tipping it like that

Pre-Chorus

They say the man in the yellow hat is a colonizer

And the monkey's just a symbol of the enterprise

I just wanted crackers and a silly little tune

Now I'm getting lectured by a cartoon baboon

Chorus

Hey hey Curious George what'd you do

Somebody went and made a scholar out of you

Hey hey Curious George tell me true

Was it just a barrel or a manifesto too

(Mm-hmm mm-hmm)

Verse 2

Took the kids to the movie on a Saturday night

Popcorn bucket bigger than the marquee light

But somewhere in the middle of the popcorn and the screen

A professor started yelling what the monkey really means

Pre-Chorus

Now every page's got a lecture every scene's got a cause

And a little brown monkey's got a thesis and a clause

I ain't here to argue I ain't here to fight

I just want my banana-eating buddy back tonight

Chorus

Hey hey Curious George what'd you do

Somebody went and made a scholar out of you

Hey hey Curious George tell me true

Was it just a barrel or a manifesto too

(Mm-hmm mm-hmm)

Bridge

Turn the page turn the dial turn it all around

Man in the hat he can keep his crown

Monkey on a bike monkey in the zoo

Let a monkey be a monkey that's the honest-to-goodness truth

Chorus

Hey hey Curious George what'd you do

Somebody went and made a scholar out of you

Hey hey Curious George tell me true

Was it just a barrel or a manifesto too

Hey hey Curious George

Hey hey Curious George

(Mm-hmm mm-hmm)