Tweeter And The Monkey Man Ukulele Chords

The Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter and the Monkey Man
 
RIFF
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LICK
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[Intro]
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(Riff)
 
[Verse 1]
Am                              G
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash
     F                           Am
They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash
      Am                       G
To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan
    F                       Am
For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man
 
[Verse 2]
Am                                 G
Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam
    F                         Am
And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn
     Am                                 G
They knew that they found freedom just across that Jersey line
        F                              Am
So they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am                      | Am |
Never saw them when they fell (Lick)
 
[Verse 3]
Am                  G
 The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man
F                                   Am
Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can
Am                               G
Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill
         F                                     Am
She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill
 
[Verse 4]
       Am                   G
It was out on thunder road, Tweeter at the wheel
     F                               Am
They crashed into paradise you could hear them tires squeal
    Am                              G
The undercover cop pulled up, said "Everyone of you is a liar
   F                                   Am
If you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire."
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell
 
[Interlude]
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(Riff)
 
[Verse 5]
   Am                           G
An ambulance rolled up, a state trooper close behind
F                             Am
Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind
    Am                      G
The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree
         F                          Am
Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory
 
[Verse 6]
Am                              G
Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit
       F
He was taking the whole thing personally
          Am
He didn't care about the loot
Am                                  G
Jan had told him many times "It was you to me who taught,
   F                          Am
In Jersey anything's legal as long as you don't get caught."
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell
 
[Interlude]
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(Riff)
 
[Verse 7]
    Am                          G
Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas
    F
The undercover cop had cornered them said  
 Am
"Boy, you didn't think that this could last."
Am                                  G
Jan jumped out of bed said "There's someplace I gotta go."
    F                                          Am
She took a gun out of the drawer and said "It's best if you don't know."
 
[Verse 8]
    Am                            G
The undercover cop was found face down in a field
    F                                    Am
The Monkey Man on the river bridge using Tweeter as a shield
Am                                  G
Jan said to the Monkey Man "I'm not fooled by Tweeters curl,
  F                              Am
I knew him long before he ever became a Jersey girl."
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell
 
[Interlude]
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(Riff)
 
[Verse 9]
        Am                     G
Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again
    F                          Am
I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den
    Am                          G
The TV set been blown up, every bit of it is gone
     F                                    Am
Ever since the nightly news show that the Monkey Man was on
 
[Verse 10]
  Am                           G
I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun
      F                               Am
There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done
    Am                           G
Sometime I think of Tweeter, sometimes I think of Jan
    F                                         Am
Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell
 
[Chorus]
        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      Dm
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell
 
[Outro]
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(Riff)
 
(repeat and fade)
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