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Two weeks ago, I listened to Live on the BBC, and I'm still thinking about the Beatles' cover of Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business." I keep thinking about it because John Lennon sings the line as "Too much monkey business for me to imbibe again." Along with Berry's original, I have a couple other versions of "Too Much Monkey Business" (The Kinks covered it on The Kinks, and I have a live version by the Yardbirds). In each of those versions, the line is "Too much monkey business for me to be involved in." Misheard (and then mis-sung) lyrics in covers is something I find fascinating, and I think this is one of the more interesting examples.
