Monkey

Song

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:59:55 -0800

From: "Michael A. Mazur" <mmazur@WPI.EDU>

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

Bm

Hey 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------------<12>--|
|--------------------------|--13--------13--------| Guitar 2 plays
|--------------------------|--14---/14------------| this
|--------------------------|----------------------|
|--------------------------|----------------------|

Chorus:

Bm D A E

Hey monkey, where you been?

This lonely spiral I've been in

Hey monkey, when can we begin?

Bm D E

Hey monkey, where you been?

Bm D A E

|--------------------------|-{0}----------4\2--------|
|--------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 A D

Just get the world off your shoulders

and close your pretty blue eyes

Em Bm D

Hey monkey, what's life without an

Asus2 A

occasional surprise?

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--|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|