Funky Donkey Lyrics

Put this on a Zip disk, send it to your lawyer
File me under "Funky"

Like sipping lemonade and Arnold Palmers
Big holiday parties like Dolly Padner

Sometimes I get Pad Thai as a starter
My other order, Pad See Yew, is much darker

Adam Horovitz, I take a shvitz
I'm known for my glamour and my glitz, check it

As I bust, I really must encrust
This microphone rust with Diamond fairy dust

I don't wear Crocs and I don't wear sandals
The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Stop singing that song in the wrong key
What you looking at? Funky donkey

Funky donkey
Funky donkey

I-I-I-I-I go woooo-ooo like a fire engine
Flashing lights to get your attention
Stop sweating me about the weather
Go shave a sheep and knit yourself a sweater


Don't get me heated or y'all in trouble
Bass is booming make the dancehall bubble

Letting loose, up in the honkey tonk
With the shoopa doopa doo bedonk

Well, I was swimming in the water of the ocean
Like Dr. Jekyll with the magic potion

We're brand new, never ever the same
What's that, what's that, what's the name?
Funky donkey
Funky donkey
Funky donkey

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“Funky Donkey” is Track 9 on Beastie Boys' 8th (full-length) studio album, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, which was…

  • Written & Produced by Beastie Boys
  • Recorded by: Beastie Boys, Jon Weiner, and Andre Kelman at Oscilloscope Laboratories
  • Mixed by: Beastie Boys, Philippe Zdar, & Pet Bischoff (Asst.) at Electric Lady Studios, NYC
  • Mastered by: Vlado Meller & Mark Santangelo (Asst.) at Universal Mastering Studios, NY
  • Published by: Brooklyn Dust Music/Universal-Polygram International Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP)

Samples include:

  • “Twin City Hustler” by The Diamels, used under license from Freaky Thangz Records
  • “(It’s Called) Love Boat” by Pretty Ron and the Love Boat Crew, used under license from Rock Creek Records

The album’s release was delayed until 4.27.2011 due to MCA’s diagnosis of salivary cancer. “Funky Donkey“ was never performed live in concert.

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Recorded At
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Release Date
April 27, 2011
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