Alright, let me tell ya tonight,
This Friday, a blue moon alright.
I've got a plan, every-one should know.

I've got a plan, it's really slow.

I'm gonna build me a monkey, out of the clear moon-light.

I'm gonna build me a monkey, out of the clear moon-light.
But if I show him to ya, people, he'll be clean out of sight.


Because the comets start appearing, and the sky began to fall, yes it did.
I said, "The comets start appearing, and then the sky began to fall."
I said, "Baby let's go, before it gets too cold."


We'll be out there, the shiny blue moon,
And I'll tell you exactly what to do.

Build that monkey out of the moon-light,
Circling, circling all through the night, all through the night.


I'm going to build me a monkey out of the clear moon-light.
I'm going to make sure my monkey, make sure that he understands. (He's gotta understand now.)
Make sure my little monkey, understands every hand.


That's the left and the right, the new and the old.
The monkey won't beat ya, till you're cold.

With a shiver down your back, Whew, let me out of this calm, I don't want to die.

Take you out to the desert, and show you my plan.

I'm gonna teach that monkey how to hustle, out on the desert sand.

You got American religion, American schools.

American moonshine, American Jewels.
American schemes, Everything is cool.
We're the only ones who can build it true.


We're gonna build us a Monkey, for the brand New Age.
Gonna tell ya what our new monkey, what he's gonna say.


He'll say, "Ooo-ooo, Eee-eee, Ah-ah-ah." "Ooo-ooo, Eee-eee, Ah-ah-ah."
He's only a monkey, he's only a monkey.

That's all he knows how to say, that's all he can say.
He's just a monkey, he's only a monkey.
I said "He's only a monkey, only a monkey."


A funkadelic monkey, like Nineteen Seventy One.
A psyche-funky monkey, a psyche-funky monkey

A psyche-funky monkey, a funkadelic monkey.
I said, "A funkadelic monkey, a monkey hunky stunky."


He'll be lookin' there, he won't know what to do.
He's just a monkey.


Well, I can teach him one thing, though.
What's that, what's that?
I can teach him how to hustle,

You have to understand.
I'm gonna teach my monkey how to hustle,
out on the desert sand.