Hey, Mona, Mona
Hey, hey hey hey, Mona, oh Mona
Hey, Mona what I wanna do
Build my house next door to you
Can I see you sometime
We can talk just through the blind
Can you come out in the front
Listen to my heart goin' bum pity bump
I need you baby that’s no lie
Without your love I’ll surely die
Hey hey, Mona, Mona
Hey hey hey hey, Mona, hey Mona
Hey hey, Mona, Mona
Can you come out on the front
Listen to my heart goin' bum pity bump
Need you baby that’s no lie
Without your love I’ll surely die
I grew up on the Sun Records artists of Memphis cause my Dad's big influence on me musically I started with Elvis of course then Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee and Johnny Cash ...Sonny Burgess, Carl Mann , others like legendary Buddy Holly, I could go on ...Bo Diddley was one of the guitar icons I discovered on my own, I bought his 1960 classic Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger at a garage sale around early 1977, I dug for more Bo after that !...all my friends talk of who's the best guitarist of all time ...Eddie Van Halen, Dimbag Darrel, Tony Iommi, always listed ...Bo is where it started Rock & Roll guitar thunder at it's bestest and juiciest Bo Diddley best! rest in peace Diddley !
You will notice that Bo does not use the same rhythmic pattern on Mona as he does on his first hit, "Bo Diddley". Yet every artist who covers it does. That is because Bo's many different rhythmic patterns were complex, and nobody else has mastered most of them.
Everybody knows just that first one.
reply to whippersnappertgr
I was at that Louisville concert you mentioned 1982. It was a magical night. Bo used a local backing band and another local band, The Holidays, opened for him. For the last song, they played Mona for over 15 minutes and every musician there plugged in and played along. As I recall, including Bo, there where eight guitarist playing Mona, almost comical. It was such a festive crowd and mood no one wanted to stop, and even Bo Diddley seemed to be elevated by the night and kept the Mona going strong for one round after another. And like you observed, it seemed everyone in the place danced to every second of it. My favorite concert memory of all time owed to the great Bo Diddley.