Going' alone life is your own but the cost sometimes is dear

Being complete knowing defeat keeping on from year to year

It takes some doing monkey's the blues you hear keeping on from year to year

Life is a school less you're a fool but the learning brings you pain

Knowing at once you're just a dunce trial and error loss and gain

It takes some doing monkey's a slow slow train trial and error loss and gain

Finding your one place in the sun doesn't come the easy way

Shallow or deep nothing is cheap measured by the dues you pay

It takes some doing monkey's a blue highway measured by the dues you pay

It takes some doing monkery's the blues you hear keeping on from year to year

Keeping on from year to year