Riff 1: | ------------------ | | ------------------ | | ------------------ | | ------------------ | | ------3----------- | | 0-3/5----5-3-5-5-- | Riff 2: | -------------------------- | | -------------------------- | | -------------------------- | | -------------------------- | | -------3-3---------------- | | -0-3-5-----5-5-3-3-0-0---- | Riff 1 D5 D5 A5 Riff 1 D5 D5 A5 A5 G5 Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash F5 A5 They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash G5 To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan F5 A5 For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man. A5 G5 Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam F5 A5 And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn G5 They knew that they found freedom just across that Jersey line F5 A5 So they hopped into a stolen car took Highway 99 A5 E5 And the walls came down All the way to hell D5 Never saw them when their standing A5 Never saw them when they fell riff 1, then D5 D5 A5 A5 G5 The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man F5 A5 Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can G5 Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named Bill F5 A5 She made secret calls to the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill A5 G5 It was out on thunder road Tweeter at the wheel F5 A5 They crashed into paradise you could hear them tires squeal G5 The undercover cop pulled up said Everyone of you is a liar F5 A5 If you dont surrender now its gonna go down to the wire A5 E5 And the walls came down All the way to hell D5 Never saw them when they're standing A5 Never saw them when they fell riff 2 A5 G5 An ambulance rolled up a state trooper close behind F5 A5 Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind G5 The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree F5 A5 Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory G5 Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit F5 He was taking the whole thing personally A5 He didn't care about the loot G5 Jan had told him many times it was you to me who taught F5 A5 In Jersey anythings legal as long as you dont get caught A5 E5 And the walls came down All the way to hell D5 Never saw them when they're standing A5 Never saw them when they fell riff 1, then D5 D5 A5 A5 G5 Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas F5 A5 The undercover cop had cornered them said Boy you didn't think that this could last G5 Jan jumped out of bed said There's someplace I gotta go F5 A5 She took a gun out of the drawer and said It's best if you don't know A5 G5 The undercover cop was found face down in a field F5 A5 The Monkey Man on the river bank using Tweeter as a shield G5 Jan said to the Monkey Man I'm not fooled by Tweeters curl F5 A5 I knew him long before he ever became a Jersey girl A5 E5 And the walls came down.. All the way to hell.. D5 Never saw them when they're standing A5 Never saw them when they fell riff 1, then D5 D5 A5 A5 G5 Now the town of Jersey City is quieting down again F5 A5 I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den G5 The TV set been blown up, every bit of it is gone F5 A5 Ever since the nightly news show that the Monkey Man was on A5 G5 I guess I'll go to florida and get myself some sun F5 A5 There ain't no more opportunity here everythings been done G5 Sometime I think of Tweeter, some time I think of Jan A5 Sometime I think of nothing but the Monkey Man A5 E5 And the walls came down.. All the way to hell.. D5 Never saw them when they're standing A5 Never saw them when they fell