Monkey Hangin' Blues pt 2 - Howlin' Monkey

Описание: If the first part of Monkey Hangin’ Blues opens the album like a storm on the shoreline, then part two closes it like a tolling bell across the docks. Played at the end of Howlin’ Monkey’s live sets, it was less a song than a ritual — a slow, surging reprise that carried the whole room into silence, then eruption.

Where part one is the tale of accusation and gallows fate, part two is the reckoning: the ghost of the hanged monkey refusing to fade, still singing its blues back to the people who condemned it. Sometimes mournful, sometimes defiant, Monkey stretched the refrain until it became chant-like, the audience swept into a trance as if they too stood in the square that day, watching history go wrong.

In Howlin’ Monkey’s hands, the old Hartlepool legend is no longer just a tale of folly and cruelty. It becomes something larger, a Delta myth retold on the banks of the Tees — the blues of injustice transformed into a ghost story that lingers on the tide.

Locals have long whispered that the spirit of the hanged monkey walks the shoreline still, not in vengeance but in vigil, guiding lost sailors through storm and fog back into safe harbour. Monkey takes that whispered hope and amplifies it, turning the tragedy into a hymn of survival, even redemption.

You see him on the shore sometimes
Under a grey sky
You hear him on the wind sometimes
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy

Poor bugger in a sailor's hat
Coulda been me or you
Poor bugger in a sailor's hat
I don't know why
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy

And he calls the boats to the shore
Safe from the rock where he crashed before
Guiding the boats to the shore
Away from the rock where he crashed before
And you see him on the shore sometimes
Under a grey sky
And you hear him on the wind sometimes
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy
The ghost of a monkey hung for a spy

Washed up on the shore with the wind in his ears
After a great storm that had been raging for years
And I know it may sound crazy to you
He's just a poor little monkey
With the monkey hangin' blues

Cos he's a monkey
He's a monkey
Yeah a monkey on a noose
Cos he's a monkey
He's a monkey
Yeah a monkey on a noose
He's just a poor little monkey
With the monkey hangin' blues

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