Tweeter and the Monkeyman
Bob Dylan, the Traveling Wilburys / the Traveling Wilburys: Vol. 1 (1988)
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| ( | intro) | | Tweeter and the Monkey Man were | hard up for cash. |
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| They stayed | up all night selling | cocaine and hash |
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| To an | undercover cop who had a | sister named Jane, |
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| For | reasons unexplained, she | loved the Monkey Man. |
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| Tweeter was a boy scout before she | went to Vietnam |
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| And | found it out the hard way no | body gives a damn. |
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| They | knew that they found freedom just a | cross the Jersey Line, |
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| So they | hopped into a stolen car, took | Highway 99. |
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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, never | saw them when they fell. ( | bridge) | | |
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| The undercover cop | never liked the Monkey Man, |
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| Even back in childhood he wanted to | see him in the can. |
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| Jane got married at fourteen to | a racketeer named Bill, |
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| She made | secret calls to the Monkey Man from a | mansion on the hill. |
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| It was out on Thunder Road, | Tweeter at the wheel. |
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| They | crashed into paradise, they could | hear them tires squeal. |
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| The undercover cop pulled up and said " | Everyone of you's a liar! |
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| If you | don't surrender now, it's 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, never | saw them when they fell. ( | bridge) | | |
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| An ambulance rolled up, a | state trooper close behind, |
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| Tweeter took his gun away and | messed 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 a | bandoned factory. |
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| Next day the undercover cop was | hot in pursuit, |
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| He was | taking the whole thing personal, he didn't | care about the loot. |
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| Jane had told him many times it was | you to me who taught: |
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| In | Jersey anything's legal as | long as you don't get caught! |
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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, never | saw them when they fell. ( | bridge) | | |
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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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| Jane jumped out of the bed, said "There's | someplace I gotta go!" |
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| She took a | gun out of the drawer and said "It's | best if you don't know." |
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| The undercover cop was found face | down in a field, |
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| The | monkey man was on the river bridge using | Tweeter as a shield. |
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| Jane said to the Monkey Man, "I'm not | fooled by Tweeter's curl! |
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| I | knew 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, never | saw them when they fell. ( | bridge) | | |
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| Now 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". |
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| The | TV set been blown up, every | bit of it is gone, |
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| Ever since the nightly news show that the | Monkey Man was on. |
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| I guess I'll go to Florida and | get myself some sun, |
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| There | ain't no more opportunity here, | everything's been done. |
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| Sometime I think of Tweeter, some | times I think of Jane, |
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| Some | times I don't think about 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, never | saw them when they fell. ( | bridge) | | |
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