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Monkey And The Engineer
Composer: Jesse Fuller

Monkey And The Engineer was played by the pre-Dead group Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. The song was performed by the Grateful Dead in acoustic sets in 1969, 1970, 1980 and 1981. Also performed by Bob Weir with Kingfish.


Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions

info Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, 1998

Grateful Dead

info Reckoning, 1981
info Beyond Description, 2004
info Grateful Dead Download Series: A Night At The Family Dog 2/4/70, 2005
info Reckoning, 2006 (bonus on exp. CD)
info Live Albums Collection, 2013
info Complete Live Rarities Collection, 2013
info The Warfield, 10/9/80 & 10/10/80, 2019
info Dave's Picks Vol 30: Fillmore East, 2/1/70, 2019
info The Story Of The Grateful Dead, 2020
info Dave's Picks Volume 43: 11/2/69 & 12/26/69, 2022

Garcia / Weir / Kahn / Kreutzmann / Hart

info Sing Out!: BCT, April 25, 1981, Various Artists, 2024

Jesse Fuller

no info Single (The Monkey And The Engineer / Runnin' Wild), Jesse Fuller, 1961
info Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Jesse Fuller, 1961
info Railroad Worksongs, Jesse Fuller, 1992

Other recordings

info Sing of Our Times, The Brothers Four, 1964
info Jubilee!, Peggosus, 1991
info S.S. Bathtub: Songs for Kids and Their Grownups, David LaMotte, 1998
info Live Im Malzhaus, Die Blu'men, 1999
no info Cricket on the Hearth, Jeff Robbins, 199?
no info Emily Songs, Ben Rudnick & Friends, 2001
info Some Old Lonesome Day, Lauren Sheehan, 2003
info Sing of Our Times / The Honey Wind Blows, The Brothers Four, 2004
no info Stomp Yer Feet!, Johnny Bregar, 2005
no info Sugar Pine, Sugar Pine, 2005
no info Going for Broke, Michael Martin and Friends, 2006
info Little Mo' McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, 2007
no info Yarn Sessions, Tobasco Donkeys, 2008
info A Friend Of A Friend, Dave Rawlings Machine, 2009
info Dead Air, Various Artists (The Front Porch), 2019
info The Yarn Sessions, The Tobasco Donkeys, 2021

 
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