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