Tweeter And The Monkey Man / Traveling Wilburys.

 

 

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 'fore 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 99

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 racketeer named Bill
She mad 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 you's a liar
If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down 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 did'nt 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