99 Monkeys
99 monkeys on a government project
Typing away on IBM Selectrics
They take a stab at Shakespeare and almost get a sonnet
But they mess up the pentameter
And leave out all the commas
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt
To almost get it right
99 monkeys if they had enough time
Would randomly reproduce Elizabethan rhyme
99 monkeys, left to themselves
Would sooner or later crank out haiku and doggerel
But they've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost get it right (get it right)
Get it right (get it right)
Get it right (right), right (right)
RIght (right), right (right), right
(Right)
The 99th monkey hits a carriage return
He's ninety-eight percent of the way through Ode To a Grecian Urn
Beauty is truth and truth is beauty
A wop bop a loo bop, a lop a tutti frutti
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost get it ri-
Right
Typing away on IBM Selectrics
They take a stab at Shakespeare and almost get a sonnet
But they mess up the pentameter
And leave out all the commas
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt
To almost get it right
99 monkeys if they had enough time
Would randomly reproduce Elizabethan rhyme
99 monkeys, left to themselves
Would sooner or later crank out haiku and doggerel
But they've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost get it right (get it right)
Get it right (get it right)
Get it right (right), right (right)
RIght (right), right (right), right
(Right)
The 99th monkey hits a carriage return
He's ninety-eight percent of the way through Ode To a Grecian Urn
Beauty is truth and truth is beauty
A wop bop a loo bop, a lop a tutti frutti
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost
They've been here
99 years
Chained to their keyboards day and night
Don't it hurt to almost get it ri-
Right
Credits
Writer(s): Russell Edward Somers
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