Tweeter And The Monkey Man
The Traveling Wilburys

Submitted By Tiny Man
kellymark@rogers.com

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Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash. They stayed up all night sellin? cocaine and hash.
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To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan, for reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man.
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Tweeter was a Boy Scout fore she went to Viet Nam, and found out the hard way nobody gives a damn.
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They knew that they?d find freedom just across the Jersey line, so they hopped into a stolen car, took highway

Ninety-nine.


[Chorus]
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.


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The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man, even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can.
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Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill; she made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion
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On the hill. It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheel, they crashed into Paradise, they could hear them tires
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Squeal. The undercover cop pulled up and said ?Everyone is a liar, if you don?t surrender now it?s gonna go down to

the wire?.


[Chorus]
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.



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An ambulance rolled up, a State Trooper close behind, Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind.
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The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree, near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory.
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Next day the undercover cop was a hot in pursuit, he was takin? the whole thing personal, he didn?t care about the
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 loot. Jan had told him many times ?it was you to me who taught, that in Jersey anything?s legal, as long as you don?t

get caught.


[Chorus]
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.


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Someplace by Ryeway Prison, they ran outa gas. The undercover cop had cornered ?em, said ?Huh you didn?t think
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That this could last? .Jan jumped up outa bed, said ?there?s someplace I gotta go?. She took a gun out of the drawer
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And said ?it?s best that you don?t know?. The undercover cop was found face down in a field, the Monkey Man was on
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The river bridge usin? Tweeter as a shield. Jan said to the Monkey Man ?I?m not fooled by Tweeters curl, I knew it long
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Before he ever became a Jersey girl?.

[Chorus]
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.



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Now the town of Jersey City is quietin? down again. I?m sittin? in a gamblin? club called ?The Lions Den?.
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The TV set was blown up, every bit of it was gone, ever since the night Lindley E. showed that the Monkey Man
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was on I guess I?ll go to Florida and get myself some sun, there ain?t no more opportunity here everything been done.
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Sometimes I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan. Sometimes I don?t think about nuthin? but the Monkey Man.


[Chorus]
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.
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And the walls came down, all the way to Hell. Never saw them when they?re standin? never saw them when they fell.


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