Tweeter and the Monkey Man Karaoke - Traveling Wilburys

This title is a cover version of Tweeter and the Monkey Man as made famous by Traveling Wilburys

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With backing vocals (with or without vocals in the KFN version)

Tempo: variable (around 110 BPM)

In the same key as the original: Am

Duration: 05:28 - Sample at: 01:25

Release date: 1988
Genres: Folk, Rock, In English
Original songwriter: Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, George Harrison

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Lyrics Tweeter and the Monkey Man

Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash

They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash

To an undercover cop who had a sister named jan

For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man

Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam

And found out the hard way nobody gives a damn

They knew that they found freedom just across the jersey line

So they hopped into a stolen car took highway ninety nine

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

The undercover cop never liked the monkey man

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

Jan got married at fourteen to a rackateer named bill

She made secret calls to the monkey

Man from a mansion on the hill

It was out on thunder road tweeter at the wheel

They crashed into paradise they could hear them tires squeal

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

If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

An ambulance rolled up a state trooper close behind

Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind

The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree

Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory

Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit

He was taking the whole thing personal he didn't care about the loot

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

In jersey anythings legal as long as you don't get caught

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

Someplace by rahway prison they ran out of gas

The undercover cop had cornered them said

Boy you didn't think that this could last

Jan jumped out of bed said there's someplace I gotta go

She took a gun out of the drawer

And said it's best if you don't know

The undercover cop was found face down in a field

The monkey man was on the river

Bridge using tweeter as a shield

Jan said to the monkey man

Im not fooled by tweeters curl

I knew him long before he ever became a jersey girl

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

Now the town of jersey city is quieting down again

Im sitting in a gambling club called the lions den

The TV set been blown up every bit of it is gone

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

I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun

There aint no more opportunity here everythings been done

Sometime I think of tweeter sometime I think of jan

Sometime I don't think about nothing but the monkey man

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

And the walls came down all the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing never saw them when they fell

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Tweeter and the Monkey Man Karaoke - Traveling Wilburys

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