another phrase is yes man decended the onery cuss but brother he didn't decend from us. Looking for the name of the poem and its author. Probably dates late 1800S Thanks Tigger
2006-10-15 08:18:58 · 6 answers · asked by tigger 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I believe that the original poem was entitled "Charles Darwin's Mistake."
I don't have the original poem, but I do have the lyrics to a version of it that was a local hit record in New Orleans in the 1950s:
THE MONKEY SPEAKS HIS MIND
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be.
One said to the other,"Listen here, you two.
I just heard a rumor that CAN'T be true."
"That man descended from our noble race!
The very idea is a big disgrace.
No monkey ever cheated his wife,
Starved her baby, and ruined her life."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"You'll never see a mother monk
Leave her child with others to bunk.
Passing him off from one to the other,
Till the poor child sca'cely knows his mother."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's another thing you'll never see -
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree.
Letting good coconuts go to waste
While forbidding all others to come and taste.
Why, if I built a fence around a tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's one more thing a monkey won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew.
Or use a gun, or club, or knife
To take another monkey's life.
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum.
But brothers, from us HE DID NOT COME."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
2006-10-15 09:10:16 · answer #1 · answered by o41655 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poems About Monkeys
2016-10-18 05:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by shahid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an 11 year old child living on a farm at Kulnura NSW in late 1950 some friends attended a church convention at the Yankee Stadium New York and brought back a copy of the poem and gave it to me. Some sources give this poem a later date. I can assure all it was alive and well in 1950.
D.D.
2015-07-07 23:21:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funkey Monkey good one. This introduced a grin to my face with your end. you have an excellent mind's eye and are waiting to remodel it to pen. i began out to think of no, this is not any longer the hook the fish craves, however the bait, in spite of the indisputable fact that, i might assemble if one threw interior the bait devoid of the hook, that bait might waft on via, uncontested. Suffice it to assert that they pass hand in hand, yet sure, and not utilising a hook, a fish won't chew. concepts of "The Canada" "whats up you men, Bri gots one" then the laughter, as my nibble is nubble and not something yet problem. i'm able to't seize a fish. So with me, this is not any longer the bait or the hook darn it, this is me for heavens sake. Does the fish see me and unlike me. Is the fish giggling, ha ha and swims away. Why are my brothers 2 feet away catching fish and that i'm no longer? ---------------------------------------... Edit: CW----super commentary i did no longer even seize (pardon me there) however the indoors rhymes, good tutor FM, congrats, do no longer ya be attentive to!
2016-12-16 08:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
o41655 is correct, though you'll find a more modern recording of this same song done by Elvis Costello as well as an original reprise done by him as well. Thanks Austin City Limits.
2006-10-15 14:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by Sphinx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whose race is nobel in the poem
2016-09-29 14:03:09 · answer #6 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋