I’m No Kin to the Monkey – Lyrics and mp3
More than 30 years ago, Robin and Crystal Bernard (yep, the lady from Wings) sang on a record called Dr. Jerry Falwell: Feudin' Fussin' & Frettin' (Fret Not). One song on that record sticks out. It's a horribly catchy anti-evolution song. Grab some headphones and take a listen. Freaky shit.
But who's to say whether we're really here because of evolution. I mean, on the one hand we have mountains of evidence and centuries of scientific research... But on the other hand, the guy wearing a robe on Sundays said I should believe a black book written thousands of years ago.
And here are the lyrics:
I'm no kin to the monkey no no no,
The monkey's no kin to me yeah yeah yeah,
I don't know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn't swing from a tree.
It seems so unbelievable,
And yet they say that it's true,
They're teaching us about it in school now,
That humans were monkeys once too.
Oooo I'm no kin to the monkey no no no,
The monkey's no kin to me yeah yeah yeah,
I don't know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn't swing from a tree.
Although it's so ridiculous,
They're teaching us now that it's true,
The teachers that came from a monkey,
Would be better off in a zoo.
Oooo I'm no kin to the monkey no no no,
The monkey's no kin to me yeah yeah yeah,
I don't know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn't swing from a tree.
It seems so much more believable,
And surely, surely it's true,
That God made Man in His image,
No monkey story will do.
Oooo I'm no kin to the monkey no no no,
The monkey's no kin to me yeah yeah yeah,
I don't know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn't swing from a tree,
This monkey business has to go,
Because it just isn't true,
It's such a disgrace to the monkey,
A disgrace to the human race too.
Oooo I'm no kin to the monkey no no no,
The monkey's no kin to me yeah yeah yeah,
I don't know much about his ancestors,
But mine didn't swing from a tree,
Mine didn't swing from a tree,
Mine didn't swing from a tree.

October 31st, 2005 - 08:47
Now I’ve got the stuck song syndrome… IT’S NOT GETTING OUTTA MY HEAD! Too darn catchy for me, yeah yeah yeah.
October 31st, 2005 - 09:30
Damn… it is kind of catchy. I’ve written about this exact subject before, but I didn’t know the b*tch from Wings was a Bible Beater too. What was she doing up in that Yankee Heathen place called Martha’s Vineyard for so many years then?
October 31st, 2005 - 11:01
Ranting:
Me too. It’s catchy and awful. I think my wife’s getting sick of hearing me sing that terrible song.
Mojotek:
Great post. That’s an interesting quote from John Derbyshire. If we’re going to teach “both sides” of the debate, why not teach ALL SIDES of the debate? Evolution, intelligent design, space aliens, reincarnation, etc etc…
November 2nd, 2005 - 00:35
Yeah, I heard about these nutty ass youngins. Did you see their one picture; wearing their smiley face hitler shirts. It’s a damn shame that their pathetic insecure mother would force her insecurities upon her children.
March 4th, 2006 - 20:28
MAKE IT STOP! mOTHER OF GOD, MAKE IT STOP!!!
June 23rd, 2006 - 09:17
There is only one reasonable response to cute little girls who love Hitler:
http://hitlercats.motime.com
Ahhh, ain’t they sweet.
August 3rd, 2006 - 16:00
The song, definitely done in a twangy style not my own, HOWEVER, portrays an amazing truth! I’m annoyed that the THEORY of evolution has been presented as FACT in our schools, and remains to be taught though proven to have so many false presuppositions, and no factual evidence at all. The textbooks change every 5-10 years because they find they have been wrong about a myriad of their teachings. We’re not waiting for the latest issue of the Bible to come out. It’s been right since it was written and never proven wrong. Everyone believes what they believe because of their presuppositions. I’ll start mine with God every time.
August 3rd, 2006 - 16:51
That’s cool. I always start my presuppositions with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So we’re pretty much the same.
August 3rd, 2006 - 16:51
Oh so true. The bible hardly ever gets rewritten. Apart from by King James. And any translation from the original text. Which doesn’t exist in one place. And was written years after the events. Which were hearsay anyway.
January 29th, 2007 - 10:37
Thanks Melody Tintle
Melody Tintle wrote:
The song, definitely done in a twangy style not my own, HOWEVER, portrays an amazing truth! I’m annoyed that the THEORY of evolution has been presented as FACT in our schools, and remains to be taught though proven to have so many false presuppositions, and no factual evidence at all. The textbooks change every 5-10 years because they find they have been wrong about a myriad of their teachings. We’re not waiting for the latest issue of the Bible to come out. It’s been right since it was written and never proven wrong. Everyone believes what they believe because of their presuppositions. I’ll start mine with God every time.
Thanks again for presenting the absolute truth.
Jim
January 29th, 2007 - 11:00
Soapy tit-wank. That is all.
January 29th, 2007 - 11:06
From an open letter to the Kansas School Board:
“Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him…
Some find that hard to believe, so it may be helpful to tell you a little more about our beliefs. We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power…
He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is. For example, a scientist may perform a carbon-dating process on an artifact. He finds that approximately 75% of the Carbon-14 has decayed by electron emission to Nitrogen-14, and infers that this artifact is approximately 10,000 years old, as the half-life of Carbon-14 appears to be 5,730 years. But what our scientist does not realize is that every time he makes a measurement, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is there changing the results with His Noodly Appendage. We have numerous texts that describe in detail how this can be possible and the reasons why He does this. He is of course invisible and can pass through normal matter with ease…
I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.”
January 31st, 2007 - 13:57
I would just like to point out that today, January 31st, is National Gorilla Suit day.
http://www.povonline.com/National%20Gorilla%20Suit%20Day.htm
October 15th, 2007 - 00:24
I love this song… so true, so true!! Great message in song!
I wish more people new this song by heart!
December 6th, 2007 - 13:03
That’s a great song! It highlights in a very straight-forward manner the utter ridiculousness of the foolish Darwinist “evolution theory.” Mine didn’t swing from a tree! Did yours? LOL
December 6th, 2007 - 13:29
Darwinists, since their own childish theories cannot stand on their own, and since the truth of the Supreme Lord cannot be challenged directly, all too often mention such bizarre things as “spaghetti monster,” “mermaids,” “sky elves,” and a myriad of other ridiculous straw-man arguments that they manufacture. The straw-man argument is perhaps the most shameful and childish of all the logical fallacies, and among the very favorites of the ungodly atheist.
The fact is that the atheist is afraid to face the issue directly, and the issue is simply that God’s personal plan for the highly structured, ordered, and variegated universe that we all experience every day makes much more sense as its ultimate origin than such mythological concepts as “chance,” “randomness,” and “evolution theory.”
Life comes from life, personality comes from personality, and intelligence comes from intelligence.
There is not so much as one single example, in the experience of any scientist, neither theist nor atheist, of one species being observed producing a member of another species. Conversely, every nanosecond, every millisecond, every instant, every moment, every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every night, every week, every month, every year, every term, every decade, every lifetime, every generation, every century, every millennium, every epoch, every aeon, every era, and every age, since time immemorial, and right down the line, to this very red-hot nanosecond, what we observe, each and every time, without fail, adjustment, or substitution, is that each respective species produces members of its very own, same species, with absolutely not as much as a single example, throughout the entire history of all time, of crossover from one species to any other species. None — none at all.
Only the insane can neglect these facts and insist upon the foolish “evolution theory” instead.
December 6th, 2007 - 13:35
My ancestors swung from trees. And crawled in the mud. Sometimes, given enough Raki, they still do.
Believe what you like. Whatever keeps you from being scared of the dark.
December 6th, 2007 - 15:23
“the truth of the Supreme Lord cannot be challenged directly”
I assume you imply that it can be proven?
December 10th, 2007 - 14:53
“Only the insane can neglect these facts and insist upon the foolish “evolution theory” instead.”
Yeah I think your right, I’m going to start believing in the much more sane story told in the Bible called “Gods pissed off again so we better build this boat and collect two of everything so that when it stops raining in a month or so we can live happily in fear of a vengefull god.”
Oh wait I just realized that just the larva of all the different insects on earth would be enough mass to sink a modern day aircraft carrier, and thats just the insects!
Oh yeah not to mention the sanity of my girlfriend being a descendant of Adams’ friggin rib bone. Come on. Thats just silly.
May 5th, 2008 - 10:01
Oh, I haven’t heard that song since I was about 12–35 years ago! This isn’t anything new, and if you think you hate it now….when we learned it, It began with….”Boom boom boom, I’m no kin to the monkey…” And, we learned it in Vacation Bible School from Pastor Paul Everett, who sang it when HE was a child. He and his best friend would start to sing it and get sent to the principal’s office whenever the teacher would begin to teach evolution. And that had to be 50 years ago! So it isn’t new, just cycling around again. Hope Falwell’s people aren’t taking credit for writing it…
May 6th, 2008 - 19:32
anyone know where i can get the tabs for this song?
i needs it….
May 11th, 2008 - 23:49
Love it sang this as a Lid never forgot it, & I surely believe it, my ancestors did not come from monkey’s
June 8th, 2008 - 19:37
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=181819&song=The+Monkey+Song+%26+The+Ecumenical+Movement
July 6th, 2010 - 16:30
This song was written for children to have fun as they learn the truth about our beginning. I think it’s a great song!
July 30th, 2010 - 22:20
Maybe if you read that black book from cover to cover and listened to what God is saying, you might just change your mind!! Most people read a little and give up, but only the ones that read and listen will know the TRUTH!
July 31st, 2010 - 00:37
Can’t…deal…with…the overwhelming stupidity. I can’t wait for the dolphins or scorpions to take over. I think I’ll take to a tree to wait.