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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