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Monkey Casino

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Monkey Casino is the name of a Babyshambles track, released as a B Side to Fuck Forever, that is also known under many other, different titles. Usually Doherty would just add a word onto the end of the name "Pipey" ("Pipey Magregor"/"Pipey O'Brady"/"Pipey Magraw"/"Pipey O'Hooley"/"Pipey O'Tootdle" etc.) This track also borrows lyrics from another song recorded by The Libertines, called "Bilo Song." Before the song was recorded and released by Babyshambles, in 2005, it was usually played acoustically by Doherty.

The lyric, "You know that one's too many and a hundred ain't enough" is lifted from the 1945 Billy Wilder film The Lost Weekend, in which the desperate life of an alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout. A barman in the film says, "One's too many, and a hundred's not enoug

Appearing on

B-Sides BabyshamblesDemo2006
Fuck Forever BabyshamblesSingle2005-08-15
Royalty Songs BabyshamblesDemo2005
Untitled Album (Pipey McGraw) Peter DohertySession2004-04-08
Whitechapel Demonstrations (Pipey Magraw) Peter DohertySession2004-04-06
HQ Bethnal Green Demo Sessions (Pipey McGraw) BabyshamblesSession2004-02
HQ Sessions Second Wave (Pipey McGraw) BabyshamblesSession2004-02
The Freewheelin' Pete Doherty (Pipey McGraw) Peter DohertyFan mixtape2004
The Liverpool Session (Pipey McGraw) Peter DohertySession2004
Conversations in Eden Peter DohertySessionUnknown

Concerts

The Mass Peter DohertyBrixton, London2008-06-17
Glasgow Barrowlands (1) Peter DohertyGlasgow, Scotland2008-05-18
The Torriano Peter DohertyKentish Town, London2008-03-20
Glastonbury (Pipey McGraw) Peter DohertyPark Stage2007-06-23
An Evening With Pete Doherty Pt.1 Peter DohertyHackney Empire, London2007-04-12
Glasgow, Garage (Pipey McGraw) BabyshamblesGlasgow, Scotland2004-10-03
Rhythm Factory (Pipey McGraw) BabyshamblesLondon (Whitechapel), UK2004-05-04

Lyrics

One's too many and a hundred ain't enough
For Corna baby give me more oh that stuff
Oh baby, oh baby
We had a real good time
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
I run a monkey casino
I gotta head full of beano
I hear the voices of evil
Telling me to do murder
I got my false feel
I got my false friends
I got my rum deal
I got my slow train
It's coming round the bend

And believe me
You know you wouldn't wanna be me
Nor would you want the shame or the strain of my name
But if I can live my life all over again
There ain't one single thing I'd change

Bilo, they call me Billy Bilo
I'm like a fish on a lilo, I'm all out of place
It's written all over my face

Bilo, some call me blood clot wierdo
Oh they fuck with your mindo
When you do it skag and bone

Bilo, they call me Billy Bilo
Oh they fuck with your mindo
When you do it skag and bone

Pipey Magraw
That's Pipey Magraw
Pipey Magraw
That's Pipey Magraw

One's too many and a hundred ain't enough
For Corna baby give me more oh that stuff
Oh baby, oh baby
We had a real good time

NameMonkey Casino
BandBabyshambles
CreditsPeter Doherty


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