You know I got a letter from a friend of mine In Newcastle-Upon-a'Tyne the other day He said to me "Eric I heard you've been havin' some trouble down in the smoke with the girls" He said "You wanna catch that flyin' Scotsman back up here to Newcastle, 'Cause we've got enough females to go around up here And I can figure you can find yourself a little somethin' And because people around here don't go away stealin' each others loved ones away from one another, Like they do down there in the smoke" He also said in the letter that, ah, Things don't happen like that here on Tyne And I believed every word he said, now Things don't happen like that here on Tyne One more thing he told me now Things don't happen like that here on Tyne He said to me babe Things don't happen like that here on Tyne He said, all right, all right So I'm sayin' to you who are listen'… If you've been unlucky in love And you've lost somebody love And you hear a voice that comes to you in the middle of the night and says… It says I want you to get on up… Listen to me, I want you to get on up and find yourself another one If your havin' breakfast one morning and out from behind the teapot a little voice says, Listen, Hey! I want you to get on up now If your out in the mornin' on your job and a voice come to you on your job and says, Get up! Get Up! And you know its not the foreman Its a little voice that says… You wanna get up and walk ...(?) women Go on and find yourself somebody That's what you'd better do. Because I'll tell you one thing There's one thing I found out One thing I found out Took me a long time to find it out Yeah…it took me a long time to find out But I,….think I got it now Oh yeah.. One monkey don't stop no show Yes, its true baby One monkey don't stop no show Don't let one monkey stop up your show One monkey don't stop no show One monkey don't stop no show