Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter And The Monkey Man (Guitar)

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The Traveling Wilburys - Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Dylan/Petty/Orbison/Harrison/Lynne)
Am                                G
  Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash

    F                             Am
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash

                              G
To an undercover cop who had a sister named jan

     F                          Am
For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man

Am                                G
Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to vietnam

    F                             Am
And found out the hard way nobody gives a damn

                              G
They knew that they found freedom just across the jersey line

     F                          Am
So they hopped into a stolen car took highway 99
(chorus)
Am                      Em
And the walls came down all the way to hell

D            
Never saw them when theyre standing

        Am                   
Never saw them when they fell
(play before going into the next verse) D Am D Am
Am                                G
The undercover cop never liked the monkey man

    F                             Am
Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can

                              G
Jan got married at fourteen to a rackateer named bill

     F                          Am
She made secret calls to the monkey man from a mansion on the hill

Am                                G
It was out on thunder road - tweeter at the wheel

    F                             Am
They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal

                              G
The undercover cop pulled up and said everyone of yous a liar

     F                          Am
If you dont surrender now its gonna go down to the wire
(chorus)
Am                      Em
And the walls came down all the way to hell

D            
Never saw them when theyre standing

        Am                   
Never saw them when they fell
(play before going into the next verse) D Am D Am
Am                                G
An ambulance rolled up - a state trooper close behind

    F                             Am
Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind

                              G
The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree

     F                          Am
Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory

Am                                G
Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit

    F                             Am
He was taking the whole thing personal,He didnt care about the loot

                              G
Jan had told him many times it was you to me who taught

     F                          Am
In jersey anythings legal as long as you dont get caught
(chorus)
Am                      Em
And the walls came down all the way to hell

D            
Never saw them when theyre standing

        Am                   
Never saw them when they fell
(play before going into the next verse) D Am D Am
Am                                G
Someplace by rahway prison they ran out of gas

    F                             Am
The undercover cop had cornered them said boy, you didnt Think that this could last

                              G
Jan jumped out of bed said theres someplace I gotta go

     F                          Am
She took a gun out of the drawer and said its best if you dont know

Am                                G
The undercover cop was found face down in a field

    F                             Am
The monkey man was on the river bridge using tweeter as a shield

                              G
Jan said to the monkey man Im not fooled by tweeters curl

     F                          Am
I knew him long before he ever became a jersey girl
(chorus)
Am                      Em
And the walls came down all the way to hell

D            
Never saw them when theyre standing

        Am                   
Never saw them when they fell
(play before going into the next verse) D Am D Am
Am                                G
Now the town of jersey city is quieting down again

    F                             Am
Im sitting in a gambling club called the lions den

                              G
The tv set been blown up, every bit of it is gone

     F                          Am
Ever since the nightly news show that the monkey man was on

Am                                G
I guess Ill to to florida and get myself some sun

    F                             Am
There aint no more opportunity here, everythings been done

                              G
Sometime I think of tweeter, sometime I think of jan

     F                          Am
Sometime I dont think about nothing but the monkey man

Am                      Em
And the walls came down all the way to hell

D            
Never saw them when theyre standing

        Am                      outro: Am D Am
Never saw them when they fell
Have fun!!