The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man (1969)

This new video for Monkey Man has just appeared on The Rolling Stones youtube page. Monkey Man comes from the 50th Anniversary Edition of their 1969 album Let It Bleed, Which was the band’s eighth British and tenth American studio album, released on the 5th December 1969. This animated video was directed by Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy at Yes Please Productions.

The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man – Lyrics

I’m a fleabit peanut monkey
And 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?

But 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

Yeah, 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
But we love to play the blues

But well I am just a monkey man
I’m glad you are a monkey woman too
Monkey woman too babe

I’m a monkey man
Monkey
Monkey
I’m a monkey