Chord/Tab song: Monkey

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 ([email protected])

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]

|--------------------------|-----------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]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--|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------|---------|