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The Last Monkey Maker

from Around These Parts by Jo Henley

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The Last Monkey Maker



Who will teach our children well?

Who will make them each a monkey?

Who will tell them how it used to be

And pass on family stories?



We can tar all our hillsides with roads

Turn our art into binary codes

But one day we'll wake up

And what's real is nowhere to be found 

When the last monkey maker leaves town



Who will find the way home

When there are no maps to follow?

Who will pollinate our farms

When all the bees are gone?



We can build up our cities of glass

Fish our seas till there is nothing left

You can trumpet your progress

And I'll lament what's not around

When the last monkey maker leaves town



Why invest all our time

In clocks not built to last?

Who will warn us of our path

So we don't repeat the past?



We can tar all our hillsides with roads

Turn our art into binary codes
You can't know where you're going

If you don't know what you left behind

When the last monkey maker leaves town

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from Around These Parts, released December 1, 2014
Music and lyrics by Andy Campolieto

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