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Mungo City

Spacehog
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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:07:20 EDT

From: CheshirBat <CheshirBat@aol.com>

Subject: s/spacehog/mungo_city.tab

"Mungo City" from _The Chinese Album_ by Spacehog

Written by Royston Langdon

Hog (Space) Music, Ltd. BMI

tabbed by Jeremy Joseph (CheshirBat@aol.com)

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It starts off with the main riff:

Guitar 1 (electric)

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--2--1--0-----------------------|--2--1--0------------------------||
D|-----------2--2-----------------|-----------2--2------------------||
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x4)

Guitar 2 (slide with flange)

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
G|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
D|-----------------7--\--5--------|-----------------7--\--5---------||
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x4)

Guitar 3 (distorted electric)

A G# G

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|---------------7--7-7--7-7--7-7-|--7---6-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----|
A|---------------7--7-7--7-7--7-7-|--7---6-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----|
E|---------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---4-----3--3-3--3-3--3-3-----|

Guitar 3

G C C# D

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|---------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---6-----7--7-7--7-7--7-7-----||
D|--5------------5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|--5---6-----7--7-7--7-7--7-7-----||
A|--5------------3--3-3--3-3--3-3-|--3---4-----5--5-5--5-5--5-5-----||
E|--3-----------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)

And starting with the 5th bar of the intro another guitar comes in:

Guitar 4 (distorted/overdriven electric)

slow bends

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---7b========(9)----------------|---5b==========(7)---------------|
D|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---7b========(9)----------------|---9b=========(11)---------------|
D|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

Then the verse:

Guitar 3 (with what sounds like a synthesized banjo)

A G# G A

Welcome to this empty ministry of plenty

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|--7---------------6-------------|--5---------------7--------------|
A|--7---------------6-------------|--5---------------7--------------|
E|--5---------------4-------------|--3---------------5--------------|

D D# E

As I'm sure you know...

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--7---7---5---7---7---7---5---8-|--9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9--||
D|--7---7---9---7---7---7---9---8-|--9---9--11---9---9---9--11---9--||
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---6-|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7--||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)

Then the prechorus:

F# B C#

Dossers dream of gossamer And kissing with tongues

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
D|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
A|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--2---2---2---2---2---4----------|
E|--2---2---2---2---2---2---4---5-|---------------------------------|

D C# B A

Well they're falling in love with anyone

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---6-|--4---4---4---4---4---2----------|
D|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---6-|--4---4---4---4---4---2----------|
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---4-|--2---2---2---2---2---0----------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

F# B C#

Races from all places and all under one sun

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
D|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--4---4---4---4---4---6----------|
A|--4---4---4---4---4---4---------|--2---2---2---2---2---4----------|
E|--2---2---2---2---2---2---4---5-|---------------------------------|

D E

well it sure was no fun So I got up and ran ran ran...

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
D|--7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7-|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--|
A|--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|

Chorus:

from Mungo City

A G F

Mungo City Where are you?

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|--7-----------------------------|--5-\-3--------------------------|
A|--7-----------------------------|--5-\-3--------------------------|
E|--5-----------------------------|--3-\-1--------------------------|

E D D E

You make us grey when skies are blue..

E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
G|--9-\-7-------------------------|--7-/-9--------------------------||
D|--9-\-7-------------------------|--7-/-9--------------------------||
A|--7-\-5-------------------------|--5-/-7--------------------------||
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------||(x2)

The complete lyrics:

(main riff)

(Verse:)

Welcome to this empty ministry of plenty

As I'm sure you know

We're clearly on display here

To remind you should you stray from here

Or decide to roam

(Prechorus:)

Dossers dream of gossamer

And kssing with tongues

Well, they're falling in love with anyone

Races from all places and all under one sun,

well it sure was no fun

So I got up and ran, ran, ran from Mungo City

(Chorus:)

Mungo City- Where are you?

You make us grey when skies are blue

Mungo City, in the sky

Keeps a watchful eye on you and I

(Main riff)

(Verse:)

Don't think you're even thinking

Even though you're thinking: keep it underground

They're sending out distress codes

And playing with your mind though

You won't hear a sound

(Prechorus:)

Nazis in the Japanese cars from Japan

Well, they're falling in love if onlythey can

I'm telling you the tribesman wouldn't stand for this, man

Well, it sure was no scam

So I got up and ran, ran, ran from Mungo City

(Chorus:)

Mungo City- Where are you?

You make us grey when skies are blue

(and) Mungo City, in the sky

Keeps a watchful eye on you tonight

(Main riff)

(Chorus with vocoder)

(Chorus)

(Main riff repeated with vocoder until fade out...)

Weeee.... that was fun.

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