Artist: | Traveling Wilburys (English) |
User: | dfurn31 |
Duration: | 240 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Tweeter And The Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man were ha rd up for cash
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They s tayed up all night selling co caine and hash
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To an undercover cop who had a si ster named Jan
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For r easons unexplained she l oved the Monkey Man.
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Tweeter was a boy scout before she we nt to Vietnam
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And f ound out the hard way, nob ody gives a damn
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They knew that they found freedom just a cross that Jersey line
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So they h opped into a stolen car took B ighway 99
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And the walls came down All the way to hell
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Never saw them when their standing
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Never s aw them when they fell
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The undercover cop never l iked the Monkey Man
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Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can
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Jan got married at fourteen to a r acketeer named Bill
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She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a m ansion on the hill
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It was out on thunder road T weeter at the wheel
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They crashed into paradise you could h ear them tires squeal
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The undercover cop pulled up said E veryone of you is a liar
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If you d ont surrender now its gonna go down to the wire
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And the walls came down All the way to hell
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Never saw them when they're standing
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Never s aw them when they fell
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An ambulance rolled up a state t rooper close behind
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Tweeter took his gun away and m essed up his mind
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The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree
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Near the souvenir stand by the old ab andoned factory
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Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit
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He was taking the whole thing personally
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He didn't c are about the loot
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Jan had told him many times it was y ou to me who taught
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In J ersey anythings legal as long as you dont get c aught
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And the walls came down All the way to hell
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Never saw them when they're standing
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Never s aw them when they fell
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Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas
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The undercover cop had cornered them said Boy
you didn't think that this could last
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Jan jumped out of bed said There's so meplace I gotta go
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She t ook a gun out of the drawer and said It's b est if you don't know
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The undercover cop was found face d own in a field
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The Monkey Man on the river bank using T weeter as a shield
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Jan said to the Monkey Man I'm not f ooled by Tweeters curl
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I k new him long before he ever be came a Jersey girl
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And the walls came down.. All the way to hell..
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Never saw them when they're standing
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Never s aw them when they fell
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Now the town of Jersey City is q uieting down again
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I'm s itting in a gambling club c alled the Lion's Den
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The TV set been blown up, every bit of it is gone
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Ever s ince the nightly news show that the M onkey Man was on
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I guess I'll go to florida and g et myself some sun
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There a in't no more opportunity here e verythings been done
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Sometime I think of Tweeter, some time I think of Jan
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Sometime I think of nothing but the Monkey Man
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And the walls came down.. All the way to hell..
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Never saw them when they're standing
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Never s aw them when they fell