Tweeter And The Monkey Man

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash
     A                           E
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
                               D
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
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For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man

[Pre-Chorus]
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Tweeter was a Boy Scout,
           D
'course he went to Viet Nam
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 Found out the hard way nobody gives a damn
                                        D
Thought that they'd find freedom just across the Jersey
line
A
Hopped into a stolen car,
     E
took Highway ninetynine

[Chorus]
         E
When the walls came down
D
All the way to hell
      A
Never saw them when they standin'
      E
Never saw them when they fell

[Verse 2]
E    E
 The undercover cop,
   D
he never liked the Monkey Man
A
Even back in high school,
          E
wanted to see him in can
                                 D
Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill
     A                                       E
Made secret plans with the Monkey Man from a mansion on the
hill

[Pre-Chorus]
       E
It was out on Thunder Road,
D
Tweeter at the wheel
A
 Pulled into paradise,
          E
you could hear the tires squeal
                                            D
It was Jan who'd told him many times It was you to me who'd
taught
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In Kingston everything's legal man as long as you don't get
caught

[Chorus]
         E
When the walls came down
D
All the way to hell
      A
Never saw them when they standin'
      E
Never saw them when they fell

[Verse 3]
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 Some place by Riway prison they ran out of gas
    A
The undercover cop cornered 'em,
         E
said You didn't think that this could last
                                      D
Jan jumped up out of bed said There's some place I gotta go
    A
She took the gun out of the drawer,
              E
and said It's best that you don't know

[Pre-Chorus]
   E
An ambulance rolled up,
      D
State Trooper close behind
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Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind
                                  D
The undercover cop was found face down in a field
    A                                        E
The Monkey Man was on the river bridge using Tweeter as a
shield

[Chorus]
         E
When the walls came down
D
All the way to hell
      A
Never saw them when they standin'
      E
Never saw them when they fell

[Break]
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[Bridge]
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[Verse 4]
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The town of Jersey City is quieting down again
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I'm sitting in a gambling club called The Lion's Den
The TV set is blown up,
      D
every bit of it is gone
     A                                         E
Ever since the night when they showed that the Monkey Man
was on

[Pre-Chorus]
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Maybe I'll go to Florida,
D
get myself some sun
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There ain't no more opportunity here and everything's been
done
Sometimes I think of Tweeter,
    D
sometimes I think of Jan
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Sometimes I don't think about nothin' but the Monkey Man

[Chorus]
         E
When the walls came down
D
All the way to hell
      A
Never saw them when they standin'
      E
Never saw them when they fell

[Outro]
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