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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