Tweeter And The Monkey Man Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Am][Am][Am]

[Verse 1]
[Am]Tweeter and the Monkey Man
were [G]hard up for cash
They [F]stayed up all night
selling [Am]cocaine and hash
To an undercover cop
who had a [G]sister named Jan
For [F]reasons unexplained
she [Am]loved the Monkey Man
Tweeter was a Boy Scout
'fore she [G]went to Vietnam
And [F]found out the hard way,
no[Am]body gives a damn
They knew that they found freedom
just a[G]cross the Jersey line
So they [F]hopped into a stolen car,
took [Am]Highway 99

[Chorus 1]
And the [Am]walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell

[Verse 2]
[Am]The undercover cop
[G]never liked the Monkey Man
[F]Even back in childhood
he wanted to [Am]see him in the can
Jan got married at fourteen
to a [G]racketeer named Bill
She made [F]secret calls to the Monkey Man
from a [Am]mansion on the hill
It was out on Thunder Road,
[G]Tweeter at the wheel
They [F]crashed into paradise,
they could [Am]hear them tires squeal
The undercover cop pulled up and said
[G]"Everyone of you is a liar
If you [F]don't surrender now
it's gonna [Am]go down to the wire"

[Chorus 2]
And the [Am]walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell

[Interlude 1]
[Am][D][Am]
[Am][D][Am]

[Verse 3]
An [Am]ambulance rolled up,
a state-[G]trooper close behind
[F]Tweeter took his gun away
and [Am]messed up his mind
The undercover cop was left
[G]tied up to a tree
Near the [F]souvenir stand,
by the old aban[Am]doned factory
Next day the undercover cop was
[G]hot in pursuit
He was [F]taking the whole thing personal,
he didn't [Am]care about the loot
Jan had told him many times,
"It was [G]you to me who taught
In [F]Jersey anything's legal
as [Am]long as you don't get caught"

[Chorus 3]
And the [Am]walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell

[Interlude 2]
[Am][D][Am]
[Am][D][Am]

[Verse 4]
Some [Am]place by Rahwey Prison
they [G]ran out of gas
The under[F]cover cop had cornered them, said
"Boy, [Am]you didn't think this could last?"
Jan jumped out of bed,
said, "There's [G]someplace I gotta go"
She [F]took the gun out of the drawer,
said, [Am]"It's best that you don't know."
The undercover cop was found
face [G]down in a field
The Monkey [F]Man was on the river bridge,
using [Am]Tweeter as a shield
Jan said to the Monkey Man,
"I'm not [G]fooled by Tweeter's curl
I [F]knew him long before
he be[Am]came a Jersey Girl"

[Chorus 4]
And the [Am]walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell

[Interlude 3]
[Am][D][Am]
[Am][D][Am]

[Verse 5]
Now the [Am]town of Jersey City
is [G]quieting down again
I'm [F]sitting in a gambling club
[Am]called the Lion's Den
The TV set was blown up,
every [G]bit of it is gone
Ever [F]since the nightly news showed
that the [Am]Monkey Man was on
I guess I'll go to Florida
and [G]get myself some sun
There [F]ain't no more opportunity here,
[Am]everything's been done
Sometimes I think of Tweeter,
some[G]times I think of Jan
Some[F]times I don't think about nothing
but the [Am]Monkey Man

[Chorus 5]
And the [Am]walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell
And the walls came down
[Em]All the way to hell
Never [D]saw them when they're standing
Never [Am]saw them when they fell

[Outro 1]
[Am][D][Am]
[Am][D][Am]
[Repeat and fade]