Tweeter And The Monkey Man-Traveling Wilburys

[ti:Tweeter And The Monkey Man] [ar:Traveling Wilburys] [al:The Traveling Wilburys Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.09]Tweeter And The Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys [00:01.23]Written by：Roy Orbison/Jeff Lynn/Bob Dylan/Tom Petty/George Harrison [00:02.77] [00:09.74]Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash [00:13.10] [00:13.67]They stayed up all night selling coc*ine and hash [00:17.51] [00:18.02]To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan [00:21.75] [00:22.40]For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man [00:26.04] [00:26.81]Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam [00:30.31] [00:31.12]And found out the hard way nobody gives a damn [00:34.78] [00:35.41]They knew that they found freedom just across the jersey line [00:39.48]So they hopped into a stolen car took highway nintynine [00:43.87]And the walls came down all the way to hell [00:50.19] [00:52.66]Never saw them when they're standing [00:54.43]Never saw them when they fell [00:56.42] [00:59.92]The undercover cop never liked the monkey man [01:03.34] [01:03.91]Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can [01:07.44] [01:07.96]Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill [01:11.67] [01:12.20]She made secret calls to the monkey man from a mansion on the hill [01:16.01] [01:16.60]It was out on thunder road tweeter at the wheel [01:20.07] [01:20.85]They crashed into paradise they could hear them tires squeal [01:24.71] [01:25.60]The undercover cop pulled up and said everyone of you's a liar [01:29.13] [01:29.77]If you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire [01:33.22] [01:33.98]And the walls came down all the way to hell [01:39.92] [01:42.47]Never saw them when they're standing [01:44.32]Never saw them when they fell [01:46.38] [01:55.80]An ambulance rolled up a state trooper close behind [01:59.33] [02:00.32]Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind [02:03.80] [02:04.58]The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree [02:08.10] [02:08.77]Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory [02:12.10] [02:13.33]Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit [02:16.72] [02:17.33]He was taking the whole thing personal [02:18.61]He didn't care about the loot [02:20.80] [02:21.98]Jan had told him many times it was you to me who taught [02:25.34] [02:25.96]In jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught [02:30.29]And the walls came down all the way to hell [02:36.30] [02:38.97]Never saw them when they're standing [02:40.80]Never saw them when they fell [02:42.78] [02:51.94]Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas [02:55.82] [02:56.48]The undercover cop had cornered them said boy you didn't [02:59.36]Think that this could last [03:00.59] [03:01.12]Jan jumped out of bed said there's someplace I gotta go [03:04.48] [03:05.12]She took a gun out of the drawer and said it's best if you don't know [03:09.14] [03:09.65]The undercover cop was found face down in a field [03:13.04] [03:13.81]The monkey man was on the river bridge using tweeter as a shield [03:17.62] [03:18.16]Jan said to the monkey man I'm not fooled by tweeter's curl [03:21.85] [03:22.46]I knew him long before he ever became a jersey girl [03:26.69]And the walls came down all the way to hell [03:32.87] [03:35.39]Never saw them when they're standing [03:37.28]Never saw them when they fell [03:39.26] [03:48.40]Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again [03:52.93]I'm sitting in a gambling club called the lion's den [03:56.79] [03:57.32]The TV set been blown up every bit of it is gone [04:00.87] [04:01.55]Ever since the nightly news show that the monkey man was on [04:05.48] [04:06.12]I guess I'll to to Florida and get myself some sun [04:09.78] [04:10.33]There ain't no more opportunity here everything's been done [04:14.00] [04:14.59]Sometime I think of tweeter sometime I think of Jan [04:18.37] [04:18.99]Sometime I don't think about nothing but the monkey man [04:23.14]And the walls came down all the way to hell [04:29.25] [04:31.85]Never saw them when they're standing [04:33.72]Never saw them when they fell [04:36.15]And the walls came down all the way to hell [04:42.29] [04:44.89]Never saw them when they're standing [04:46.16] [04:46.76]Never saw them when they fell