Tweeter And The Monkey Man

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