Heidi Blickenstaff
Monkeys And Playbills
[SUSAN, spoken]
You can do this Hunter (unter, unter)
Stop forcing ideas (eas, eas)
That shit is no fun (un, un)
[HEIDI, spoken]
Jeffy (Effy, effy)
Use those playbills in front of you (ont of you, ont of you)
[SUSAN, spoken]
Use what’s inside of you (ide of you, ide of you)
[HEIDI]
There’s The Golden Apple
And Golden Rainbow
Golden Boy
And Goldilocks
[SUSAN, spoken]
Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat
[HEIDI]
Beg, Borrow or Steal
Buck White
Big Deal
And Bring Back Birdie
And Bagels and Yox
[SUSAN, spoken]
Close your eyes. Breathe
[HEIDI]
Oh-oh-oooohhhhh
[SUSAN, spoken]
Ladle into that barrel of monkeys that you call a head and scoop out and image monkey
[HEIDI]
There’s Hurry, Harry
Happy As Larry
Marilyn
And Very Warm For May
[SUSAN, spoken]
Now let that image monkey-
[HEIDI]
May, May, May
SUSAN
Drive a speedboat and you, you water-ski behind it!
[HEIDI]
Oh, Brother!
Oh, Boy
Oh Captain!
Oh, Look!
Oh, Please!
Oh, Coward!
Oh, My Dear!
(gasp)
Oh, Kay
[SUSAN, spoken]
Stay behind the image and write down what you see on your monkey’s ski trip
Ready?
Go!
[BOTH]
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Okay
Oh-oh-kay
Okay
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
See the monkey
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Sail Away
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
On a speedboat
It’s
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Simply Heavenly
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
To ride
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
The Winds
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
He drives by a
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Steel Pier
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
In
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Portafino
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
To be
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
The First
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
To hear a
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Band in Berlin
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
He stops by a
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Carnival in Flanders
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
And meets a lady monkey name
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Carrie
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
And through the
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Mother Earth
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
They meander and in a
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
House of Flowers
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
They marry
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Soon
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
Soon after their
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Working
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
On their love and a
[ALL]
Different time seemed both
Wild and Wonderful
[SUSAN]
Then one day the lady monkey said to him
[ALL]
Dude
I Gotta Go Disco
I feel a Change in the Heir
I want Something More
It’s so nice to be Civilized
And I’ll miss the Stars In Your Eyes
And your Smile
But I gotta hit the Trail
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Come Summer
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
He went back to the speedboat
And watched
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Censored Scenes From King Kong
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
He found
[HEIDI AND JEFF]
Shelter
[SUSAN AND HUNTER]
On the speedboat and he thought
[ALL]
Here’s where I Belong
Just me and my speedboat
Merrily We Roll Along
Along
[HUNTER AND JEFF/ HEIDI AND SUSAN]
Monkeys and playbills/ Monkeys
And playbills and monkeys/ Playbills
Monkeys and playbills and monkeys/ Monkeys, monkeys
And playbills and monkeys and playbills and/ Playbills, playbills
[ALL]
Monkeys
Playbills
Monkeys
And playbills