This is one of those tracks that exposes McCartney’s incredible aptitude and genius. Chaotic lyrics and Washboard Rock!

GREAT VOCAL RANGE BY THE MAN OF A THOUSAND VOICES.....

To answer your question, McCartney’s kids used to say monk instead of milk when they were very young. So Paul ran with that and dreamed up Monkberry Moon Delight. Paul says if it’s anything, it’s a milkshake.

This whole album is fire. Every song is different. Might as well do the rest.

The number One album of all time. McCartney gives us the greatest vocal variety and range that nobody else can. King of melody, King of arrangement, King of lyrics, King of vocals, player of any instrument. There is no aspect of songwriting he doesn't cater to. No aspect of vocalising he can't handle; pitch perfect, tone variety is amazing, and yet he maintains his natural foundation tone when ever needed, perfect sense of harmony, backs the story line vocally better than anyone, he can scream, growl, holler, croon, adlib, emulate anyone and almost anything, his vocal power is limitless. No one compiles as many sections to a song without losing context as he. There is not one flaw in this man's example, except his lead guitar sounds in some cases. Otherwise Sir Paul McCartney is the perfect, flawless secular example musically in this fortunate world of ours and I wouldn't be surprised if he holds this mantle for the next hundred years.

This is arguably his best album. He did McCartney 1 and then this and started yearning for band mates and 2 years later he formed Wings.

My absolute favorite McCartney song..kudos for picking this song.

Monkberry Moon Delight is a “fantasy milkshake” he made up for his kids. Paul had the most range (7 octaves?) and the most diverse voice of most, if not all, singers at the time. RAM is my favorite album… The Backseat of My Car, Dear Boy and Too Many People are epic tracks!

We heard Paul “wreck” his voice (on purpose) on the album "Abbey Road” for “Oh! Darling”, that song is a also MUST listen too!

Linda's voice was so cool on this. They were a fantastic couple.

Absolutely incredible and the entire "Ram" album is filled with great songs you might check out "Backseat of my car" or "Uncle Albert Admiral Halsey" or an incredible song called "Dear Boy" about Linda's prior husband and an amazing song!!

Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and Stevie Wonder are three mind-blowing singers and composers who recorded one golden track after another in the 60s and 70s.

Favorite Paul Mccartney album. Pauls voice took a beating on this on lol.

My all time favorite song from Paul McCartney. Nobody else on planet earth can replicate this performance.

He’s a Beatle,where we expect perfection. Nuff said.

One of my absolute favorites from Sir Paul McCartney, I tip my hat to him 🤜🤛🤟✌️☝️🫶🎤🎸🥁❤️

Love this song !!!

Most versatile singer and songwriter ever

I knew Paul's vocals on this was going to cause you to wonder....WHO IS THAT????..."Unrecognizable"

so happy you listen this song ...... the full album is a gem , with different melody ..........as recommended in another comment i also recommanded " uncle albert admiral hasley " or " backseat of my car".......( on chorus of moonkberry moon delight is linda mc cartney and his daugther heather )

I can't believe my old Man gave me this LP for my 7th Birthday . I played this record about 500times the first month I had it !!!! I'm still affected by it !!!!!!!! This piece is harder than Straight outta Compton !!!!

I always love listening to that song. Excellent!!!!!

In a recent interview clip on Sirius XM radio's Beatles Channel, Paul said that he decided to channel his inner Screaming Jay Hawkins when singing Monkberry Moon Delight. Actually Screaming Jay Hawkins did a great cover of Monkberry Moon Delight which is available right here on KZfaq.

A pretty song from this era (1971), recorded at the same time as "Ram", but sold as a single is "Another Day", a beautifully upbeat song with sad lyrics

MAJOR PROPS! MAJOR PROPS! You should check out TOO MANY PEOPLE from this album! Keep digging deep into McCartney you're going to hear such a wide variety of great songs. Check out McCartney with Stevie Wonder getting funky with a song titled WHAT'S THAT YOU'RE DOING and yes it is funky!

Ram is a great album. The song Smile Away is a fun one from this album.

You NEED to hear the isolated vocals from this song. He’s so versatile and purposefully wrecked his voice to “scream-sing” Oh! Darling off of Abbey Road. Took ages to record

Check out Paul's vocals on the Beatle song Oh Darling and for the early sixties check out I'm Down.

Love his Screaming Jay Hawkins impression!

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five from the Band on the Run album. It was a B-Side track on a 45. B-side track are mostly way lesser tracks but this was an exception. I won it at a carnival back in the day.

The lyrics are so obscure and playful. There was an old kids joke about the tomato family walking and the kid tomato lagging behind and after too many times telling him to walk faster the daddy goes back and stomps on him and says "Catch Up"! (Ketchup). So, ketchup, soup and puree? Some other lyrics are references to things related to his kids, but mostly very clever and obviously fit the song. I always loved this song, his vocal performance was out of this world.

I love that you find this song so mind-blowing. I think it is too. It's Paul McCartney at his best. And you said you haven't heard a ton of Beatles songs. Wow. Go listen to them. not song by song, but by album for album. And then listen to the album again. And again. Then you'll discover so many gems. Especially the lesser-known ones, like Martha My Dear, Rocky Raccoon, For no one, Here, there and Everywhere, and so on and on and on and on etc. They are A-MA-ZING!

This album came out when I graduated from high school Incredible album from an incredible man

Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five is fantastic

Paul's belated response to John's I am the walrus

Absolutely love Monkberry. Paul at his sexiest and rawest.

That was so enjoyable. But I would also say he's been doing this since the very beginning. Check him out doing the Little Richard cover Long Tall Sally which has quite a history behind it which I just can't go into right now. So then when he was in his twenties in the beatles, I mean I'm sure you've heard some of him doing that like Helter Skelter and oh darling, but really he had so many. We think about him as the sweetest of the sweet with yesterday and just beautiful love songs like that but really, check out me and my monkey. Check out you say it's your birthday. And yeah this was early on in his solo career but also I would say Maybe I'm Amazed which is a much more genteel song but nonetheless ends up shredding his vocal chords later in it.

Love Linda’s take ❤️

Paul has said the kids in England called milk " monk ". He says Monkberry moon delight is basically a " milkshake "

Panned by the critics at the time. It’s a classic

prob my fav Paul song ...nice pick

You should listen to the whole of the Ram album. It's a McCartney peak. Oh and why did you put "who is he" on your header like you didn't know 😊

Paul on a trip

JM you should try a song. Paul McCartney wrote with Elvis Costello. It’s called My Brave Face. Elvis Costello is another artist you should try. I would suggest the song. Accidents Will Happen. He’s an amazing singer and songwriter in his own right, and is currently on tour.

FUCK YEAH one of my favorite songs of all time

One of my favorites TOO COOL again...... "SUPER FURY". 135

Paul's bass playing is on the money.

"Monkberry Moon Delight" So I sat in the attic, a piano up my nose And the wind played a dreadful cantata (cantata, cantata) Sore was I from a crack of an enemy's hose And the horrible sound of tomato (tomato, tomato) Catch up (catch up) Super fury Don't get left behind (get left behind) Catch up (catch up) Super fury (super fury) Don't get left behind (get left behind, get left behind, get left behind) When a rattle of rats had awoken The sinews, the nerves and the veins My piano was boldly outspoken In attempts to repeat this refrain So I stood with a knot in my stomach And I gazed at that terrible sight Of two youngsters concealed in a barrel Smoking monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) ho Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh Well, I know my banana is older than the rest And my hair is a tangled beretta (beretta, beretta) But I leave my pajamas to billy budapest And I don't get the gist of your letter (your letter, your letter) Catch up, (catch up) Cats and kittens (cats and kittens) Don't get left behind (get left behind) Catch up, (catch up) Cats and kittens (cats and kittens) Don't get left behind (get left behind, get left behind, get left behind) Oh, monkberry moon delight, yeah, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, yeah, yeah, yeah, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, (om pah om pah pah) Oh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight oh-oh, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Suckin' monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, (om pah om pah pah) (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Try some of this, honey (om pah om pah pah) What is it? (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (Om pah om pah pah) Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Uh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

His daughter Mary pronounced monk instead of milk.

One of my favorite songs by Paul McCartney

So I sat in the attic, a piano up my nose And the wind played a dreadful cantata (cantata, cantata) Sore was I from a crack of an enemy's hose And the horrible sound of tomato (tomato, tomato) Catch up (catch up) Soup & Puree Don't get left behind (get left behind) Catch up (catch up) Soup & Puree Don't get left behind (get left behind, get left behind, get left behind) When a rattle of rats had awoken The sinews, the nerves and the veins My piano was boldly outspoken In attempts to repeat this refrain So I stood with a knot in my stomach And I gazed at that terrible sight Of two youngsters concealed in a barrel Suckin' monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) ho Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh Well, I know my banana is older than the rest And my hair is a tangled beretta (beretta, beretta) But I leave my pajamas to billy budapest And I don't get the gist of your letter (your letter, your letter) Catch up, (catch up) Cats and kittens (cats and kittens) Don't get left behind (get left behind) Catch up, (catch up) Cats and kittens (cats and kittens) Don't get left behind (get left behind, get left behind, get left behind) Oh, monkberry moon delight, yeah, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, yeah, yeah, yeah, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, (om pah om pah pah) Oh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Oh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight oh-oh, (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Suckin' monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, (om pah om pah pah) (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (om pah om pah pah) Try some of this, honey (om pah om pah pah) What is it? (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (Om pah om pah pah) Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah (Om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Uh, monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight (om pah om pah pah) Monkberry moon delight na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na

Billy...THANK YOU for this Song!!!❤👍

Great track. Love Paul improvising counter Melodie’s over the long fade-out. Genius.

What agreat analysis.

A favorite by Paul right after Beatles broke up. Well, not right after since this is off his 2nd album "Ram".

Does anyone doubt the entire band was thoroughly Baked when they recorded this little.tune.

Paul was a fan of Screaming Jay Hawkins & Little Richard. I've read one version where the song mocked the Beatles early days when they imitated Little Richard's & Hawkins vocals. thus the different screams and whoops heard in the song. The entire album "RAM" is pure genius! Thx for playing the music!!

This is a rare one. Even lots of McCartney fans never heard this & some who have never mention it but I love it. I've never heard it on the radio even once since 1971. I like this album way better than anything Paul did after.

Recorded at home on a couple of 4 track tape recorders

JMBOY, you should also react to Paul's vocals on "OH WOMAN OH WHY" and in the Beatles Paul's vocals on "HELTER SKELTER," "OH DARLING," and these LIVE videos from his 1976 Wings Over America tour: "MAYBE I'M AMAZED," ""CALL ME BACK AGAIN," "BEWARE MY LOVE, " "BAND ON THE RUN," just to name a few where he doesn't sing they way you are used to hearing him with softer, silkier, smoother vocals. He can really shred his vocal chords, scream and sing with grit. He has amazing vocal abilities and range. (BY the way, that is his wife LINDA doing the backing vocals. She sings with him on the entire "RAM" album.

If you want to further explore his range check out songs like Temporary Secretary

And that’s Linda McCartney on backup vocals. His beloved wife died of breast cancer in the 90’s. 😢

I must Spark Up My Pipe for this little "Delight"

A song to John Lennon during their feud in the early 70's

There are several listings of the lyrics in this song. Some say it says.'Ketchup".... Soup and Puree". That makes no sense followed with "Don't Get Left Behind" The lyric is "Catch Up, Super Fury", Just as it sounds. :Smoking, Monkberry Moon Delight"..... "Suckin' monkberry moon delight" is what you do with a pipe. Much like John denied "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" was about LSD/Acid for obvious reasons. Paul made up alternative reasons not wanting the critics to know it is written about some Home Grown Cannabis. Super Fury was a strain they grew before Monkberry, and the Monkberry was much better stuff, so the lyric that the super fury had to catch up or get left behind. That is the story I heard shortly after the album was released from credible sources and makes the most sense. "Try some of this honey, What is it? "Monkberry Moon Delight" is not talking about Ketchup, soup or puree. But, only Paul knows for certain.

I don't think much more on his Ram album comes close to this. You might try Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five from Band on the Run. Helter Skelter, with the Beatles, is probably the closest thing he did to this in the Beatles.

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I told you...........amazing.

Remember that strange quirky wild eyed fella that hops around the stage playing his freakish Flute?… sure you do, you know the guy. You rode aboard his Locomotive Breath with Aqualung…. This should be added to their play list…..Jethro Tull - My God (Nothing Is Easy - Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)

Paul's kids always called milk, "monk".

"Smoking Monkberry moon delight"..... It is safe to say it is a plant product that Paul grew on his Farm..... The kind of plant that causes Paul to "Scream"..."Try some of this honey, What is it? "Monkberry Moon Delight"

It’s a milkshake.

Monkberry Delight was a strain of marijuana.

JMBOY? great song selections to react to. McCartney was off the charts talented- he played almost everything instrument on this album. Pull up, also from this album (Ram), "Too Many People". And if you really want to be a trailblazer among the reactors, pull up the Concert For Kampuchea from 1979. Specifically react to the Little Richard cover of Lucille- it'll blow you away. McCartney can belt out the screamers. No less than 20 musicians on stage for that number by the way.

I loved Paul's first few solo albums (I liked John's even more), but the critics really savaged Paul's solo stuff because his lyrics tended to be frothy or even nonsensical. This is a pretty good example of what they were talking about.

The album is great, but his Band on the Run album is superior. The Band on the Run album received a Grammy for best album.

JM, you belong on a MLB Team, with as many HOME RUNS you are hitting.

Screamin jay hawkins did this before Paul McCartney and it’s all good.

If one smokes enough of it they just make make a song like this about the experience. It's not a flavor of Bubble Gum.

Is this before you listened to the Beatles?

"who is he" You know why are you posting that click bait? it's not like you.

was a fantasy milkshake try jrs farm

In a recent interview clip on Sirius XM radio's Beatles Channel, Paul said that he decided to channel his inner Screaming Jay Hawkins when singing Monkberry Moon Delight. Actually Screaming Jay Hawkins did a great cover of Monkberry Moon Delight which is available right here on KZfaq.