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Tweeter And The Monkey Man by Traveling Wilburys - Guitar Chords

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            The Traveling Wilburys – Tweeter and the Monkey Man

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Lead Guitar

[Riff 1] [Intro]
           Am               Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
e --------|----------------|----------------|
B --------|----------------|----------------|
G --------|----------------|----------------|
D --------|----------------|----------------|
A --------|3---------------|----------------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-3-5-5-----|----------------|


[Riff 2] link between first chorus and second verse
           Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
e --------|----------------|----------------|
B --------|----------------|----------------|
G --------|----------------|----------------|
D --------|----------------|----------------|
A --------|3-3-------------|----------------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-5-3-3-0-0-|----------------|


[Riff 1 + chord change in second bar] [Interlude] / [Outro]
           Am               D D   Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
e --------|----------------|2-2---0---------|
B --------|----------------|3-3---1---------|
G --------|----------------|2-2---2---------|
D --------|----------------|0-0---2---------|
A --------|3---------------|------0---------|
E --0/3-5-|----5-3-5-5-----|----------------|

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Acoustic Guitar: chords with riff

[Riff 1 + chord change in second bar] [Interlude] / [Outro]
           Am               D D   Am
  3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
e --------|0---------------|------0---------|
B --------|1---------------|3-3---1---------|
G --------|2---------------|2-2---2---------|
D --------|2---------------|0-0---2---------|
A ------0-|3---0---0-0-----|------0---------|
E --0-3---|------3---------|----------------|

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[Intro]

| Am | % | % | % |
 [Riff 1] [Riff 1]


[Verse]

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

Am                                 G
Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to Vietnam
    Fmaj7                     Am
And found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn
     Am                                 G
They knew that they found freedom just across that Jersey line
        Fmaj7                         Am
So they hopped into a stolen car took Highway 99


[Chorus]

        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      D
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am                          Am
Never saw them when they fell   [Riff 2] 


[Verse]

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

       Am                  G
It was out on thunder road Tweeter at the wheel
     Fmaj7                           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
   Fmaj7                               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
      D
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell


  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   | 
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]


[Verse]

   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

Am                             G
Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit
       Fmaj7                                          Am                               
He was taking the whole thing personal, he ... didn't care about the loot
Am                                   G
Jan had told him many times: "It was you to me who taught
   Fmaj7                      Am
In Jersey anything's legal as long as you dont get caught."


[Chorus]

        Am               Em7
And the walls came down, all the way to hell
      D
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell


[Interlude]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   | 
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]


[Verse]

    Am                          G
Someplace by Rahway prison they ran out of gas
         F                                     Am
The undercover cop had cornered them said: "Boy, you didn't think that this could last!"
Am                                      G
Jan jumped up 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."

    Am                            G
The undercover cop was found face down in a field
    F                                        Am
The Monkey Man was 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 it long before he ever became a Jersey girl."


[Chorus]

         Am               Em7
Then the walls came down, all the way to hell
      D
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell


[Interlude]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   | 
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]


[Verse]

        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 was blown up, every bit of it is gone
     F                                    Am
Ever since the nightly news show that the Monkey Man was on

  Am                           G
I guess I'll go to Florida and get myself some sun
      Fmaj7                           Am
There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done
    Am                           G
Sometime I think of Tweeter, sometime I think of Jan
    Fmaj7                           Am
Sometimes I think of nothing but the Monkey Man


[Chorus]

         Am               Em7
Then the walls came down, all the way to hell
      D
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
      D
Never saw them when they're standing
      Am
Never saw them when they fell


[Outro]
  | Am | D D  Am   | Am | D D  Am   | 
 [Riff 1]         [Riff 1]

(repeat and fade) 
        

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