One Monkey Don't Stop No Show:Honey Cone.
#15 on BB Hot 100 on HOT WAX Records in
1971.
INTRO: Gb Db
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(The show must go on, yeaaaah!!)
CHORUS:
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Oh, one monkey don't stop no show.
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If you don't want my love, you're free to go.
Db
(You can go, you can go, you can go.)
#1.
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Life is a play, we play different parts.
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But to be a star in love, you've got to feel
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it in your hear-ar-art.
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You've been acting too strange, you don't
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love me with soul.
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Well, there's lots of other guys who'd love
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to play your role.
BRIDGE:
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If you don't wanna be my leading man..get out
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of my life and let me live again.
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(Go-goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh)
B
(yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)
CHORUS:
Gb Db Gb Db
Hey, one monkey, don't stop no show.
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If you really need our love, you'd better
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let it show.
Db
(Let it show, let it show, let it show.)
#2.
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Once we had a love you couldn't live without.
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The greatest love that Heaven has ever put out.
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Success has gone to your head, you wanna be free,
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yeah.
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Fool, don't you real-ize your backbone is we?
BRIDGE:
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If you no longer like your part, get out of my
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life before you ruin my heart.
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(You can go, you can go, oh, the show must go on!!)
#3.
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I love you, but I can do without you..(arri-ba, arri-ba!!)
INTERLUDE: Ebm Db Bbm E Gb Db Gb Ebm Db Bbm Db Gb
Ebm Db Bbm Db Gb Ebm Db Bbm Gb Db Bb Db
Gb Ebm Db Bbm Db
BRIDGE:
Db
You can go, there's the door..you can go, you can go..
CHORUS:
Gb Db Gb Db B
Oh, one monkey don't stop no show.
Db B Gb Db Gb
If you don't want my love, you're free to go.
Db
(You can go, you can go, you can go.)
OUTRO:
Gb Db Abm7 Gb
Oh, one monkey don't stop no show.
Db B Gb Db Gb Db
If you don't need our love, you better let it go.....(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
