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Tweeter and the monkey man were hard up for cash |
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They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash |
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To an undercover cop who had a sister named jan |
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For reasons unexplained she loved the monkey man |
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Tweeter was a boy scout before she went to vietnam |
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And found out the hard way nobody gives a damn |
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They knew that they found freedom just across the jersey line |
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So they hopped into a stolen car took highway 99 |
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And the walls came down all the way to hell |
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Never saw them when they're standing |
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Never saw them when they fell |
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The undercover cop never liked the monkey man |
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Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can |
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Jan got married at fourteen to a rackateer named bill |
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She made secret calls to the monkey man from a mansion on the hill |
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It was out on thunder road - tweeter at the wheel |
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They crashed into paradise - they could hear them tires squeal |
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The undercover cop pulled up and said "everyone of you's a liar |
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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 |
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Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind |
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The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree |
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Near the souvenir stand by the old abandoned factory |
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Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit |
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He was taking the whole thing personal |
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He didn't care about the loot |
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Jan had told him many times it was you to me who taught |
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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 |
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The undercover cop had cornered them said "boy, you didn't |
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Think that this could last" |
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Jan jumped out of bed said "there's someplace i gotta go" |
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She took a gun out of the drawer and said "it's best if you dont' know" |
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The undercover cop was found face down in a field |
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The monkey man was on the river bridge using tweeter as a shield |
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Jan said to the monkey man "i'm not fooled by tweeter's curl |
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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 |
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I'm sitting in a gambling club called the lion's den |
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The tv set been blown up, every bit of it is gone |
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Ever since the nightly news show that the monkey man was on |
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I guess i'll to to florida and get myself some sun |
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There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done |
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Sometime i think of tweeter, sometime i think of jan |
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Sometime i don't think about nothing but the monkey man |
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