Traveling Wilburys
... moreTweeter and the Monkey Man
Traveling Wilburys
Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cashThey stayed up all night selling cocaine and hashTo an undercover cop who had a sister named JanFor reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man
Tweeter was a Boy Scout 'fore she went to VietnamAnd found out the hard way, nobody gives a damnThey knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey lineSo they hopped into a stolen car, took Highway 99
And the walls came downAll the way to hellNever saw them when they're standingNever saw them when they fell
The undercover cop never liked the Monkey ManEven back in childhood he wanted to see him in the canJan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named BillShe made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill
It was out on Thunder Road, Tweeter at the wheelThey crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squealThe undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you is a liarIf you don't surrender now it's gonna go down to the wire"
And the walls came d... less
