C
Back in '64 I was feelin' 63 the strangest sort of 
feelin' started creepin' over me
     C
It's not the kind of feelin' you would easily forget
   C
My head started burnin' and my knees began to sweat
  F
I figured I was crazy  so I went back to my chair
      F
But I looked into my mirror and I just wasn't there
     C
Just then the window shattered and a monkey hit the 
floor
C
Looked like it was time for me to make it to the door
        G
But the monkey grabbed my coat and took away my hat
    G
And I don't remember what happened after that

[Verse]
           C
Except my friends hear the story about how I left it 
all behind
      C
Seems ever since that day I've had that monkey on my 
mind
C
Tried to do my best and make something of my life
     C
So I cut off all my relatives and then I left my wife
  F
I tried a hundred cures anything that I could find
        C
But you know life ain't easy  with a monkey on your 
mind
      G
Every time I make my mind up I'm really gonna try
          C
Well that monkey starts a-jumpin' and looks me in the 
eye
    C
Oh dig the monkey

[Instrumental]

F   C   G

[Verse]

     C
Well somethin'  exploded   when the monkey got loaded  
 and we went out on the town
    C
The monkey got so drunk   he started gettin'  funky   
it was hard to hold the poor boy down
           F
He did the Boogaloo  the Shoogaloo  the Eskimo the 
Hindu  he even made the teenage queen
       C
Oh the joint started leapin' everybody was a-freakin'  
the greatest show they'd ever seen
     G
Then someone started screamin' and I woke up from my 
dreamin'  tried to get myself realigned
    C
But it's all right and it all comes easy  when you got 
a monkey on your mind

[Outro]

C
Dig the monkey   oh one more time   dig the monkey