[Verse 1]
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'll 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, uh

[Refrain]
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)

[Verse 2]
So I'm sayin' to you who are listenin'
If you've been unlucky in love
And you've lost somebody in 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 you're 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 you're 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 it's not the foreman
It's a little voice that's, uh
Said, uh, "You wanna get up, walk like there not women
Go on, find yourself somebody
That's what you'd better do"
'Cause 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 it out
But I think I got it now
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Chorus]
One monkey don't stop no show (Yes, its true, baby)
One monkey don't stop no show (Don't let one monkey foul up your show)
One monkey don't stop no show (One monkey don't stop no show)
One monkey don't stop no show

[Outro]
One monkey don't stop no show (Yes, it's true, one monkey don't stop)
One monkey don't stop no show (Yeah, yeah, hey)
One monkey don't stop no show (Yeah, yeah, hey)