PART MAN, PART MONKEY

Live 19 Aug 2008 version

[Spoken intro:] We have here a request. We don't know this one, but uh, ???. Turn it on ???, turn it on. Let's see if the band can get it. Let me hear the rhythm, play some drums man (Max Weinberg starts playing the drums). I send this one out to the Dover parents, good science education. Just brings ??? you got them. Stop it boys!

They prosecuted some poor sucker in these United States
Teaching that man descended from the apes
They coulda settled that case without a fuss or fight
They see me chasing you, sugar, through the jungle last night
They called in that jury and one two three, said
Part man, part monkey, definitely
Come on!

Well the church bell rings from the corner steeple
Man in a monkey suit swears he'll do no evil
Offers his lover's prayer but his soul lies
Dark and drifting and unsatisfied
Well hey bartender tell me what do you see
Part man, part monkey, looks like to me
Go!

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Well the night is dark, the moon is full
The flowers of romance exert their pull
We talk awhile, my fingers slip
I'm hard and crackling like a whip

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire
Did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire
The man on the street believes what the bible tells him so
You can ask me, mister, because I know
Tell them soul sucking preachers to come on down and see
Part man, part monkey, baby that's me

Part man, part monkey
Part man, part monkey
Part man ─ let's hold that thing, boys, hold, let's see
Part man
Part man, part monkey
And I hope I ain't ??? the monkey

Info

The above lyrics are for the live 19 Aug 2008 performance of PART MAN, PART MONKEY at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA, during the Magic Tour. The song was played in a slowed-down full-band reggae arrangement.

Ticket stub for the 19 Aug 2008 show at Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA

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