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The song "Me And My Monkey?"
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From: "BlackMonk" <BlackM...@email.msn.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:32:55 -0500
Local: Mon, Nov 9 2009 9:32 am
Subject: Re: The song "Me And My Monkey?"
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"topaz" <topazgal...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Nov 5, 1:07 am, Fattuchus <fattuc...@yahoo.com> wrote:

< I have thought also that the song was about sex.  I thought monkey was
a slang term in the song for John's organ and I don't mean the
instrument.  IIRC having a "monkey on your back" can be a slang term
for a herion addiction and I do think it ironic that Yoko eventually
introduced John to heroin  >

If you mean "ironic" as a synonym for "untrue," then you're right.

According to Paul McCartney in Many Years from Now, John first used heroin
before they went to India.


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