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Monkey  Counting Crows

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:59:55 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur"
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Monkey"
Tab: "Monkey" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)
All guitars tuned down 1/2 step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Note: All chords given are relative to downtuned guitars;
Hence, all chords sound 1/2 step lower than written
Intro: (chords played by piano)
|* Asus4 A Asus4 A *| played twice
 
 |--------------------------|
 |--------------------------|
 |--------------------------| Guitar 2 plays this on the repeat
 |--------------------------|
 |--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
 |--------------------------|

Verse:
[D]All dressed up
No place to go
Hey [Bm]monkey, when you gonna show
[E]your face around me?
I know all the wrongs and rights
And I just want a little light to fall on me
[D] [Bm] [E]  
 
 |--------------------------|-----------4--2-------|
 |-----3-----3-----3-----3--|--------0--0--0-------|
 |-----2-----2-----4-----4--|-----1----------------| Guitar 1 plays
 |--0-----0-----------------|--2-------------------| this twice over
 |--------------2-----2-----|----------------------| the verse, while
 |--------------------------|----------------------|

| | |
 
 |--------------------------|--12-------------NH---|
 |--------------------------|--12--------------|
 |--------------------------|--13--------13--------| Guitar 2 plays
 |--------------------------|--14---/14------------| this
 |--------------------------|----------------------|
 |--------------------------|----------------------|

Chorus:
[Bm]Hey [D]monkey[A], [E]where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
[Bm]Hey monkey, [D]where you [E]been?
[Bm] [D] [A] [E]  
 
 |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0-0--------|
 |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2-------1-----|
 |--4-----------0-----------|--2-------------------2--|
 |--------------------------|-------------------------|
 |--------------------------|-------------------------|

*The high E note is played only
by guitar 2
[Bm] [D] [A] [E]  
 
 |--------------------------|--------------4--5--4--2--|
 |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0--0--0--0--|
 |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--------------|
 |--4-----------0-----------|--2-----------------------|
 |--------------------------|--------------------------|
 |--------------------------|--------------------------|

[Bm] [D] [A] [E]  
 
 |--------------------------|--------------2--0--0--|
 |--------3-----------3-----|--------2-----0--0--0--|
 |-----4-----4-----2-----2--|-----2-----2--------1--|
 |--4-----------0-----------|--2--------------------|
 |--------------------------|-----------------------|
 |--------------------------|-----------------------|

[Bm] [D] [A]  
 
 |--------------------|--0--|
 |--------3-----3--3--|--2--|
 |-----4-----4--2--2--|--2--|
 |--4-----------0--0--|--2--|
 |--------------------|-----|
 |--------------------|-----|

During the choruses, guitar 1 plays the above part, with minor
variation.
Guitar 2 roughly doubles guitar 1's part during the first chorus.
Verse: (Guitar 2 tacet)
Well I'm all messed
That's nothing new
Hey monkey, when you open up your blue eyes
I don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
But all I ever need is everything
* (w/ fill 1)
Hey monkey, where you been?
* (w/ fill 2)
This lonely spiral I've been in
* (w/ fill 3)
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Fills: 1 2 3
 
 |-----------10b(12)-----|--|----------8/10--|--|--(9)r7--7--|
 |--(10)r9---------------|--|--(10)r8--------|--|------------|
 |-----------------------|--|----------------|--|------------|
 |-----------------------|--|----------------|--|------------|
 |-----------------------|--|----------------|--|------------|
 |-----------------------|--|----------------|--|------------|

Bridge:
[Asus4] [-] [A]  
[E]Just get the [A]world off your [D]shoulders
and close your pretty blue eyes
[Em]Hey monkey, [Bm]what's life without [D]an
occasional surprise?[Asus2] [A]
Solo: (Guitar 1 plays D Bm E, as in verse)
Guitar 2 plays:
 
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |--18--18--18--18--18--18--18--|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |-----------17-----------17-----------|
 |-------------------------------------|
 |--18b(19)------18b(19)------(19)r18--|
 |-------------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------------|
 |----------------------17-----------|---------------------------|
 |-----------------------------------|---14--14------------------|
 |--16/18--18--18b(19)------(19)r18--|--(18)r16--14--16--14--14--|
 |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
 |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
 |-----------------------------------|---------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|
 |--15b(17)--(17)--(17)--(17)r15--------------|
 |--------------------------------14--14--14--|
 |--------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|--16b(18)r16------|
 |--17b(19)--(19)--(19)--(19)r17--------------|--------------17--|
 |--------------------------------14--14--14--|------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------|------------------|

Verse:
(Guitars tacet)
Got nowhere but home to go
* (both guitars enter with the E chord)
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
(Right here, the guitars switch channels;
gtr. 1 is now right panned, gtr. 2 is now left)
(Guitar 1 plays only the chords now, guitar 2 plays the part below)
I'm in trouble for the things I need
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
 
 |--17--|-----------17--------17--------|
 |------|-------------------------------|
 |------|--18b(19)------(19)------(19)--|Guitar 2 plays this over the
 |------|-------------------------------|second half of the verse
 |------|-------------------------------|
 |------|-------------------------------|
 |-----------17------17------|-----------------------------|------|
 |---------------------------|----------17--17--17---------|------|
 |--(19)r18------18------18--|--18--16--------------16/18--|--19--|
 |---------------------------|-----------------------------|------|
 |---------------------------|-----------------------------|------|
 |---------------------------|-----------------------------|------|

Chorus:
(Played exactly like the second chorus, with the fills in gtr. 2)
Hey monkey, where you been?
This lonely spiral I've been in
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
* (w/ Fill 4)
Hey monkey, where you been?
* (w/ Fill 5)
Hey monkey, where you been?
Hey monkey, where you been?
Fill 4
 
 |------------------------------|
 |--12--(12)r10/12--12b(14)r12--|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|
 |------------------------------|

Fill 5
 
 |-------------------------------|--15/17--|
 |--14--(14)r12--14--15b(17)r15--|---------|
 |-------------------------------|---------|
 |-------------------------------|---------|
 |-------------------------------|---------|
 |-------------------------------|---------|


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