Chords for Joe Tex - One Monkey Don't Stop No Show

_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[F] _ You [C] know I got a letter from a friend of mine [F] in New York City the other day.
[G] _ _ [C] He said, Joe, I heard you've had some [Bb] trouble with the girls down home.
[C] So you ought to catch a bus and come on up to New York.
[F] _ [D] So they got enough women up here to [C] go around. _
I think you can find yourself [F] something because people don't go around stealing [C] each other's loved ones away from them up here in New York.
[F] _ [D] He said on the letter that [C] things don't happen.
Things don't happen
[F] Things don't happen like that in [Eb] New York.
[C] He said things don't happen [F] like that.
Up here [Gm] in New York He said
[Am] Things
Don't happen like that
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ [C] Things don't happen
_ [F] Here in New York [C] Oh, yes.
Oh, yes, they did all right.
[F] So I'm [C] saying to you who are listening, _ if you've been unlucky [F] in love [G] and lost somebody
[C] and a [C] voice comes to you in the middle of the night [F] and tells you to get up, listen,
[Gm] you better get [C] on up.
If you're having breakfast one [F] morning and a voice comes to you at the
table and says, get [C] up, listen, I want you to [F] get on up.
If you're [A] out on your job and
a voice comes [C] to you on the job and says, get up, listen, [F] you better get on up.
[C] Yeah,
baby.
Get yourself on up, [F] baby.
_ [G] You had better [C] get on up.
_ [F] Yeah, [C] yeah.
You better get on up
and walk like [F] men and women and go somewhere and find you somebody.
[C] That's what you better
do.
Because I'll tell you one [F] thing, something [G] that I found out [C] a long time ago.
It took
me a long [F] time to find it out, [G] but I think I [C] got it now.
Oh, it [F] took me a long time to
[D] find it out, but I [C] think I got it now.
Oh, yes, I did.
[F] I found out [C] a long time ago.
[Cm] One
monkey [F] don't stop no show.
I found [C] out that one monkey just don't [F] stop no show.
_ [Gm] [C] Yes, I
did.
Found out that one monkey [F] just don't [G] stop no show.
[C] Found out that one monkey just
[F] don't stop [G] no show.
And if [C] you believe that, you hear you say it one time to [F] me tonight.
I [Em] said, if, if, if you [C] believe that. _ _