Hot Monkey Love Blues by WYSIWYG


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The Song Challenge: I Wanna Hold Your . . . May 31 — A sex-crazed male monkey has caused an uproar in a central Sri Lankan town, stalking and attacking girls in public and flirting outrageously with cats and dogs, a newspaper said on Wednesday. The monkey has roused the anger of residents of Kundasale by following young women around the town, jumping on them without warning and clinging tenaciously until it was chased away with sticks and stones, the Daily News reported. Apparently having little success with human females, the primate also makes advances on other animals to which it has "a very strong affinity (particularly) cats and dogs of the opposite sex," the newspaper said, adding the creature fed its libido by stealing chocolates from local shops. The monkey business has outraged the town in Sri Lanka's conservative rural heartland where public displays of affection are frowned upon even between humans of the opposite sex.

Hot Monkey Love Blues by WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG's Comments: I'd like to offer a sub-challenge, Áine, if I may. That would be to make a blues number collaboratively, using as many words from this as possible: http://blueslyrics.tripod.com/blueslanguage.htm#top Put the words from that source in BOLD type to get points. The winner gets a set of Gary Davis lyrics edited for use in church singing! (Not sanitized-- verses added, etc.!) With chords! Call it a Holy Roller Ball prize. I'll start it off:

You know it's hot in the jungle
But baby I saw you.
Oh I was hot there in the jungle
But then I caught a whiff uh you.
I'll do whatever it takes, baby,
To lose these hot monkey love blues.

And it's steamy in that jungle, baby,
But not as steamy as you.
Oh yeah it's steamy in that jungle, baby,
And 'most as steamy as you.
But with these hot monkey love blues baby,
Whatchoo speck me to do?

You got me jitterbuggin' baby
The way you shake that thang.
Oh I cain't hep but be jitterbuggin' baby,
The way you shake that thang.
Need me some pow'ful goofy dust honey
Or do I gotta flag me a train?

I ain't no monkey man, baby
I'se a natural born.
I ain't no monkey man, baby
I'se a natural born.
Once this monkey kiss yo monkey, honey,
Keep it nice an' warm.