Some friends get offended when told they look like a monkey. In reality aside furriness and prehensile digits there is no difference between us and monkeys and story you are about to be indulged reveals the organisational, adaptability and communal nature of the beast. It is a village bedtime story (told over and over the eons by the elderly villagers to children) for ages from seven to ninety seven years. Each of these enjoys it and saw a figment of themselves in the kingdom of the prehensile long tailed red monkey. Story telling especially lullabies is common art in all Gambian village families and is mostly done by aunts and grandparents. It is in most cases purvey of elderly ladies with ages ranging from 60 – 90 years. The purpose of these lullabies is, besides making children sleep, to ensure their safety as they nestled under watchful eyes of grannies. This allows parents to go about their affair with out worry about safety of their children. The second reason was to enable the children run short safe errands for the elderly. These stories at times transcend lullabies told to the elderly coming from eons of traditional storytelling in historical context of the kings, chiefs, villages or tribes and animals. Some of the stories are still scary to Gambian adults who have heard them told some forty or more years ago. I write to raise funds for building Njawara hospital.