Tweeter and the Monkey Man - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
From the 1988 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol.1", featuring Charlie T. Jr. Wilbury (Tom Petty), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan), Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne), and Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison). A stunt with the Wilbury project, was that all songs were credited commonly. This song telling the story of two drug dealers are obviously mainly Dylan, with assistanse of Petty. It contains a lot of references to Bruce Springsteens life and music, and is the only song in this album without any sign of Orbison, though he was still alive at recording time, I believe.Am G Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash F Am they stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash G to an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan F Am for reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man Am G Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam F Am and found out the hard way nobody gives a damn G they knew that they found freedom just across that Jersey line F Am so they hopped into a stolen car took Highway 99 Am Em and the walls came down all the way to hell Dm never saw them when their standing Am never saw them when they fell
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