Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter And The Monkey Man (Ukulele)

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The Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter and the Monkey Man RIFF
         Am               D     Am         Am               D     Am
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E|------|0-------0-------|2-2---0---0-----|0-------0-------|2-2---0---------|
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g|--0---|2-----0-2-2-----|2-2---2-----0---|2-----0-2-2-----|2-2---2---------|
LICK
         Am
         1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  

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[Intro]
| Am | D Am   | Am | D Am   | 
(Riff)
[Verse 1]
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
[Verse 2]
Am                                 G
Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam

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

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

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

      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am                      | Am | 
Never saw them when they fell (Lick)
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
       Am                   G
It was out on thunder road, Tweeter at the wheel

     F                               Am
They crashed into paradise you could hear them tires squeal

    Am                              G
The undercover cop pulled up, said "Everyone of you is a liar

   F                                   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

      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Interlude]
| Am | D Am   | Am | D Am   | 
(Riff)
[Verse 5]
   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
[Verse 6]
Am                              G
Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit

       F                                    
He was taking the whole thing personally

          Am
He didn't care about the loot

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

   F                          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

      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Interlude]
| Am | D Am   | Am | D Am   | 
(Riff)
[Verse 7]
    Am                          G
Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas

    F
The undercover cop had cornered them said  

 Am
"Boy, you didn't think that this could last."

Am                                  G
Jan jumped 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."
[Verse 8]
    Am                            G
The undercover cop was found face down in a field

    F                                    Am
The Monkey Man on the river bridge using Tweeter as a shield

Am                                  G
Jan said to the Monkey Man "I'm not fooled by Tweeters curl,

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

      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing

      Am
Never saw them when they fell
[Interlude]
| Am | D Am   | Am | D Am   | 
(Riff)
[Verse 9]
        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 been blown up, every bit of it is gone

     F                                    Am
Ever since the nightly news show that the Monkey Man was on
[Verse 10]
  Am                           G
I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun

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

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

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

      Dm
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

      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing

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