Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Space Monkey , by - John Prine. Release date: 06.02.2005
Song language: English
Space Monkey |
| Space Monkey, Space Monkey |
| What you doing out there? |
| Why it’s dark as a dungeon way up in the air |
| Come gather round me you little monkeys and a story I’ll tell |
| About a brave young primate, outer space knew him well |
| He was born at the top of a big old tree |
| Way back in 1953 |
| He could swing through the jungle and hang by his toes |
| Till they took him to Russia cause they could I suppose |
| They dressed him up in a spacesuit and it started to snow |
| Shot him off in a rocket where no man would go |
| Space Monkey Space Monkey |
| What you doing out there? |
| Why it’s dark as a dungeon way up in the air |
| There’ll be no one to greet you when you get back home |
| No hammer or sickle you’ll be on your own |
| He had plenty of Cuban bananas and loads of Spam |
| But he found great difficulty trying to open the can |
| One day he slipped on a banana peel and the ship lost control |
| It spun out of orbit and shot o]ut the black hole |
| It’s been four decades now, that’s nine monkey years |
| That’s a long time for a Space Monkey to confront all his fears |
| Space Monkey Space Monkey |
| What you doing out there? |
| Why it’s dark as a dungeon way up in the air |
| There’ll be no one to greet you when you get back home |
| No hammer or sickle you’ll be all on your own |
| Space Monkey, Space Monkey |
| It’s time to get real |
| The space race is over, how does it feel |
| Cold War’s had a heatwave, Iron Curtain’s torn down |
| They’ve rolled up the carpet in Space Monkey town |
| Now Leningrad is Petersburg and Petersburg’s hell |
| For a card-carrying monkey with a story to tell |
| The Space Monkey was reportedly last sighted about |
| A half a block off of Red Square |
| In a karaoke bar having a few drinks with some of his friends |
| There was the dog that flew Sputnik |
| And a blind red-headed, one legged parrot |
| Who had done some minor research for Dow Chemical |
| They were drinking American Vodka |
| Imported all the way from Paducah, Kentucky |
| And reportedly had their arms around each other’s |
| Shoulders singing |
| «Those were the days, my friend, we thought they’d never end» |
| Space Monkey, Space Monkey |
| There’s nothing to do |
| But it’s better than living in a Communist zoo |
| There’ll be no one to greet you when you get back home |
| No hammer or sickle you’ll be all on you own |