Name: Monkey See, Monkey Do (a Russ Still song) - Single
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Description: Just before Christmas 2017, Russ Still asked if I would like to put some music to a song he had written. On 23rd December I wrote this. It was mixed a couple of months later.

Monkey See, Monkey Do (a Russ Still song) - Single

by John Reed

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Just before Christmas 2017, Russ Still asked if I would like to put some music to a song he had written. On 23rd December I wrote this. It was mixed a couple of months later.

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MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO (a RUSS STILL song)

Don’t you see what they're saying?
Do you really buy their lines?
New day, same old story
The blind leading the blind

Do you think they really care?
They're after just one thing
They’re trying to pay their masters
Stealing by all ways and means

Hear, speak, see the evil
Monkey see, monkey do
It ain't ever about the people
Monkey see, monkey do

Go on and bury your head
Blink but it won't go away
We keep sending them to the castle
And they take all they can take

Lyin’ on the TV and radio (stations)
No one knows what’s really true
Everything is spun their way
And we just keep on getting screwed

CHORUS

They’ll do anything to save their face
Kill all the wolves who dare bark at the door
They’ll say anything that keeps them in that place
As long as they’re sure that they’ll get more

CHORUS x 2

Lyrics © Russ Still 2017. All rights reserved.
Music & arrangement on this version © John Reed 2017. All rights reserved.

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released June 11, 2018
JOHN REED:
Vocals, cittern, electric guitar

HEYGAMAL:
bass guitar, production

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John Reed Berwick Upon Tweed, UK

John is a Blackpool born singer-songwriter and radio show host whose songs cover themes of social injustice, environment, politics, love, & life

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