Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter And The Monkey Man (Guitar Acoustic)

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The Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter and the Monkey Man ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lead Guitar [Riff 1] [Intro]
           Am               Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e --------|----------------|----------------|
B --------|----------------|----------------|
G --------|----------------|----------------|
D --------|----------------|----------------|
A --------|3---------------|----------------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-3-5-5-----|----------------|
[Riff 2] link between first chorus and second verse
           Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e --------|----------------|----------------|
B --------|----------------|----------------|
G --------|----------------|----------------|
D --------|----------------|----------------|
A --------|3-3-------------|----------------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-5-3-3-0-0-|----------------|
[Riff 1 + chord change in second bar] [Interlude] / [Outro]
           Am               D D   Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e --------|----------------|2-2---0---------|
B --------|----------------|3-3---1---------|
G --------|----------------|2-2---2---------|
D --------|----------------|0-0---2---------|
A --------|3---------------|------0---------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-3-5-5-----|----------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acoustic Guitar: chords with riff [Riff 1 + chord change in second bar] [Interlude] / [Outro]
           Am               D D   Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

e --------|0---------------|------0---------|
B --------|1---------------|3-3---1---------|
G --------|2---------------|2-2---2---------|
D --------|2---------------|0-0---2---------|
A ------0-|3---0---0-0-----|------0---------|
E --0-3---|------3---------|----------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro]
| Am | % | % | % |
 [Riff 1] [Riff 1]
[Verse]
Am                              G
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash

     F                           Am
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash

      Am                       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

    Fmaj7                     Am
And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn

     Am                                 G
They knew that they found freedom just across that Jersey line

        Fmaj7                         Am
So they hopped into a stolen car took Highway 99
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am                          Am
Never saw them when they fell   [Riff 2]
[Verse]
Am                  G
 The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man

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

Am                               G
Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer 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

     Fmaj7                             Am
They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal

    Am                                  G
The undercover cop pulled up and said: "Every one of you is a liar

   Fmaj7                               Am
If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire."
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell

  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   |
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]
[Verse]
   Am                           G
An ambulance rolled up, a state trooper close behind

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

    Am                      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

       Fmaj7                                          Am
He was taking the whole thing personal, he ... didn't care about the loot

Am                                   G
Jan had told him many times: "It was you to me who taught

   Fmaj7                      Am
In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught."
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Interlude]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   |
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]
[Verse]
    Am                          G
Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas

         F                                      Am
The undercover cop had cornered them, said: "Boy, you didn't think that this could last!"

Am                                       G
Jan jumped up out of bed, said: "There's someplace I gotta go!"

    F                                            Am
She took a gun out of the drawer and said: "It's best if you don't 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

Am                                   G
Jan said to the Monkey Man: "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curl

  F                             Am
I knew it long before he ever became a Jersey girl."
[Chorus]
         Am               Em7
Then the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Interlude]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   |
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]
[Verse]
        Am                     G
Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again

    F                          Am
I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den

    Am                         G
The TV set was 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 I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun

      Fmaj7                           Am
There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done

    Am                           G
Sometime I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan

    Fmaj7                                     Am
Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man
[Chorus]
         Am               Em7
Then the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell

      D
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Outro]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   |
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]
(repeat and fade)